Sector Skills Councils

Alliance of Sector Skills Councils

The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils – the employer-driven organisations that, together, articulate the voice of 89% of the UK's employers on skills issues. The Alliance is a new organisation comprising all 25 licensed UK Sector Skills Councils.

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Asset Skills

For the property, housing facilities management, cleaning and car parking industries.

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Cogent

For the Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals, Oil and Gas, Nuclear, Petroleum and Polymer Industries.

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Construction Skills

Represents every part of the construction industry.

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Creative & Cultural Skills

For advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, music, performing, literary and visual arts.

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E-Skills UK

For IT & Telecoms, and lead body for Contact Centres.

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EU Skills

For the electricity, gas, waste management and water industries.

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Financial Services

For training, education and workforce development in the Financial Services industry including insurance and accounting.

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GoSkills

The Passenger Transport Industries.

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Improve Ltd

For Food and Drink Manufacturing and Processing.

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Lantra

For the environmental and land-based sector.

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Lifelong Learning UK

For the professional development of staff working in the UK lifelong learning sector.

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People 1st

For the Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism industries.

Proskills

For the building products, coatings, extractives, glass and print industries, which make up the process and manufacturing sector.

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Semta

For Science, Engineering & Manufacturing Technologies The sectors SEMTA represent are: aerospace, automotive, bioscience, electrical, electronics, maintenance, marine, mathematics, mechanical, metals and engineered metal products.

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Skillfast

For fashion and textiles. The sector splits into three areas: manufacturing, trading and services.

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Skills Active

For the active leisure and learning industry embracing sport and fitness, outdoors and adventure, playwork, camping and caravanning.

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Skills for Care and Development

For social care staff.

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SkillSet

For creative media covering; TV, film, radio, publishing, interactive media, computer games, animation, photo imaging and facilities.

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Skills for Health

For the UK health sector.

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Skills for Justice

For the justice sector.

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Skills for Logistics

For the freight & logistics industries.

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Skillsmart Retail

For retail skills development and promotion, contributing to improved productivity.

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Summit Skills

For the building services engineering sector including: the electro-technical, heating, ventilating, air conditioning, refrigeration and plumbing industries.

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