Public Policy Consultancy

Making Sense of Public Policy

 
 

We are translators of public policy; practitioners at heart, inspired to create innovative solutions to skills opportunities.

 

Our specialists have delivered training, developed skills programmes, and navigated the changing environment of skills policy.

High quality research, robust analysis, and clear, actionable recommendations are hallmarks of our approach.

Our work with a diverse range of clients is usually focused on two areas: Post-16 education and training reform and local labour market strategies.

Post-16 education and training reform.

 

We are well versed in assessing the impact on provider strategy and delivery of the reforms to further and higher education in England – from apprenticeships to T-levels, higher technical education and more mainstream forms of HE. Our clients include FE and HE providers, combined authorities, local authorities, not-for-profit organisations and employers.

We help our clients to:

  • Understand how policy and funding reforms will alter their key markets.

  • Assess how changes in occupational requirements are reshaping demand for education and training.

  • Plan and execute new strategies for organisations, places and sectors, in an evolving operating environment.

Local labour market strategies.

 

The need for good quality leadership of local economies has rarely been more obvious than now.

Local labour markets play a pivotal role in helping places to prosper, employers acquire the skills they need to grow, and local people to access enriching, quality work.

We offer unrivalled expertise to our clients that provides the evidence, analysis and actions required to make a positive difference through:

  • First class data-led assessment of labour market performance including by sector, geography (local, regional and national) and level.

  • Well informed policy analysis that cuts through the noise to focus on what really matters.

  • High quality, credible dialogue with local political and business leaders, post-16 education and training providers, and SMEs that build consensus and a coalition for action.

Are you a public sector or not-for-profit organisation trying to make sense of skills policy in a changing labour market?

Contact us to discuss how we can help.