Sector Skills Agreement for Scotland
The Scottish Government highlighted the creative industries as one of Scotland's six priority sectors in its economic development strategy.
It is recognised that they make a significant contribution to the economy as a whole, and have an impact beyond this into the cultural development and heritage of the country, as well as to the quality of our society and our lives.
Skillset is committed to raising skills levels across its footprint and cross-sectorally, and to working within both the Westminster and Scottish Government's policy frameworks for skills and lifelong learning.
To this end, our new Sector Skills Agreement for Scotland (SSA) revises and updates our previous SSA and reflects the considerable progress that has been made since then.
Our SSA is a strategic action plan based on an extensive programme of research into the current and future skills the creative media industries need. You can download it here:
Sector Skills Agreement for Scotland
As well as a current analysis of the skills situation for each sector, this SSA update takes into account the latest economic and policy situation and the changes and challenges against which the SSA must be delivered.
It sets out a new and demanding vision and agenda for action in this context and sets out key challenges and solutions for Government and stakeholders.
The SSA is both a statement of industry need and a reconfirmation of industry commitment and investment. Critically, it is a tool for harnessing and declaring partner commitment to our mission.
We want to build on what we have already achieved together and develop measurable, joined-up declarations of action, with well-defined outcomes, against which we can all be held to account.
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