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Kirklees Employment and Skills Board

The Labour Market and Skills Board is the strategic body who is leading on the Kirklees Labour Market and Skills Strategy.

The Board, chaired by Ken Gillespie, Kirklees Council’s Director of Place includes representatives from local and regional partners.

The board meets bi-monthly and is responsible for the delivery of the Labour Market and Skills Strategy and creating the skills action plan for Kirklees.

Board Members

• Ken Gillespie
  Director of Place, Kirklees Council (Chair)

• Cllr Peter McBride
  Cabinet Member for Regeneration

• James Devitt
  Strategy & Development Unit Manager, Kirklees Council

Meeting Minutes

March 2010

July 2010

September 2010

November 2010

March 2011

• Sue Weston
  Skills Co-ordinator, Kirklees Council

• Heather Waddington
  Funding Investment Manager, Kirklees Council

• Siraj Mayet
  Organisational & Workforce Development Officer, Kirklees Council

• Heather Paul
  Corporate Learning & Development Manager, Kirklees Council

• John Edwards
  Assistant Director for Learning, Kirklees Council

• Kate Fleming
  Adult Lifelong Learning Manager, Kirklees Council

• Alison O’Sullivan
  Director for Children and Young People, Kirklees Council

• Tony Hood
  Adult Learning Strategy Group Chair

• Peter McCann
  Principal, Kirklees College

• Professor Tim Thornton
  Pro Vice-Chancellor, Learning and Teaching, University of Huddersfield

• Ann Sykes
  Job Centre Plus

• Geraldine Barker
  Skills Funding Agency

• Sue Cooke
  Leeds City Region

• Kate Moreton-Deakin
  Calderdale & Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust

• Steven Leigh
  Mid Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce

• Bill Macbeth
  Textile Centre for Excellence

• Margaret Coleman
  Media Centre Network Board

Let us know if there’s any way you can help. Whether you would like your business to feature in a case study, or have an idea about what skills your employees need, by all means get involved.

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