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Our strategy

We're putting our strategy into action

Categories: policy

Our vision is to be a catalyst for positive change in Scotland's skills performance. To achieve our purpose and vision, we have devised three goals, each with key strategies which articulate our unique contribution to the achievement of the Scottish Government's Economic Strategy (GES).

In turn, each key strategy is delivered through key services and key strategic partnerships and these are shown in the table below. The plan explains how these goals, key strategies, key services and key partnerships will work together to drive our organisation.

Our goals, key strategies and key services and key strategic partnerships are:

Goals Enable people to fulfil their potential Make skills work for employers Be a catalyst for positive change
Key strategies
  • Foster career agility and career management skills
  • Create new levels of connectivity between learning and jobs
  • Equip individuals with the skills Scotland needs
  • Create new frameworks to develop skills for the 21st century
  • Prioritise skills development in the GES key sectors
  • Optimise how skills are used in the workplace

  • Work together to expand our collective capabilities
  • Generate new approaches to entrenched challenges
  • Focus our energies on national outcomes
Key services and key partners
  • Career Management Skills
  • New Media Services
  • Skills for Growth
  • Integrated Employment and Skills Services - includes Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE)

  • Skills for Growth
  • Skills Gateways
  • Scottish Employer Service
  • Strategic Forum
  • Skills Utilisation Leadership Group
  • Skills Committee
  • Community Planning Partnerships (CPPs)

A range of Scottish Government policies also influence what we do. You can find out more about these policies using the links in the adjacent panel. Our work brings them under one roof, and this page captures them all in a single place - giving you a clear picture of our purpose.