DORSET SKILLS Board

Responsibilities:

  • To strategically plan for skills demands and needs taking into account labour market information and the changing employment landscape
  • Influencing appropriate strategic responses in skills provision to increase the proportion of higher-productivity, knowledge-intensive jobs

The Committee Terms of Reference can be found here: Dorset Skills Board Terms of Reference.

Membership:

  • Nicola Newman, Dorset Chamber of Commerce (Chair)
  • Rod Davis, Private Training Providers (Deputy Chair)
  • Rebecca Davies, Dorset LEP
  • Jon Bird, Dorset Council
  • Joanna Gale, Seetec Pluss
  • Adrian Gunner, SWRAC
  • Lesley Haig, Health Sciences University
  • Hugh Joseph, Engineering Sector
  • David Matthews, Food Production Sector
  • Andrea Murphy, Seetec Pluss
  • Eleanor Parson, NHS Dorset
  • Phil Sayles, Bournemouth and Poole College 
  • Philip Sewell, Bournemouth University
  • Lesley Spain, Skills and Adult Education
  • Helen Stevenson, Dorset LEP / Dorset Careers Hub
  • Penny Syddall, Dorset Council
  • Karen Taylor, DWP
  • Amy Walton, BCP Council
  • Kate Wills, Weymouth & Kingston Maurward College 

Meeting dates, agendas and minutes

Meetings take place at least once a quarter, upcoming dates are:

  • 3rd February 2025

Copies of all meeting documents will be published below: 

June 2022

March 2022

January 2022

November 2021

September 2021

July 2021

May 2021

March 2021

January 2021

November 2020

September 2020

July 2020

May 2020

February 2020

November 2019

September 2019