Upskilling the UK for a Future Ready Economy

This is an online event.

Audience

This event is open to both members and non-members and will be particularly useful for HR and sustainability leaders.

Overview

Learn how businesses can build the green skills the UK needs for an inclusive, future-ready economy. Hear insights from BITC’s Green Skills Lab and Future Ready Communities pilots, and explore how businesses can prepare their workforce, young people, and communities for the jobs of tomorrow.

About the Event

The UK’s transition to a fair and future-ready economy depends on whether people have the right skills to thrive in rapidly changing industries. Green skills are increasingly essential across all sectors, yet many employers struggle to build a strong skills pipeline.

This webinar will share practical insights from Business in the Community’s Green Skills Lab and our Future Ready Communities programme. You will hear examples of how businesses are embedding green skills into their workforce planning, and how place-based pilot projects are helping young people and underserved communities to gain skills that will prepare them to access jobs.

Drawing on BITC’s experience over the last few years, we will explore:

• What green skills are and why they matter.

• How employers can develop future-ready skills within their organisation.

• How businesses can invest beyond their own workforce to prepare the talent of the future.

• The partnerships, behaviours and actions needed to support thriving people and thriving places.

This session will provide practical steps for any organisation preparing for the future of work.

Background

BITC’s Future Ready Economy report argues that the UK will only achieve a fair, resilient and competitive economy if businesses invest in people, skills and places, while operating within planetary boundaries. Our work has found that access to good, future-ready jobs is distributed unevenly, with some communities at risk of being left behind as industries change. This webinar builds on those findings by focussing specifically on how businesses can support the development of green skills within their organisation and also across their communities.

Booking and contact details and further information

• Contact jessica.hart@bitc.org.uk for any further questions.
• Full joining instructions will be sent before the event.

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