Great Jobs Podcast Episode 2: Powering the Levelling Up agenda with Green Skills

City Voices: A City & Guilds Podcast

Welcome to City & Guilds’ Great Jobs podcast series, hosted by Kirstie Donnelly MBE, CEO of City & Guilds. A monthly podcast in which she dives into some of the issues raised in our research report of the same name, produced in collaboration with economic modellers
Emsi Burning Glass.
The research found that despite key workers seeing the nation through the pandemic, the UK’s most vital industries are being threatened by growing skills shortages, as poor reputations and concerns about low pay turn off potential new recruits.
This episode looks at Green Skills and the role they can play not only in creating a sustainable future, but also powering the ambitious Levelling Up agenda set out by the government.
In this episode Kirstie is joined by:

• Lizzie Lyons – Head of Skills - Business West
• Venetia Knight - Head of Employment and Enterprise - Groundwork
• Rebecca Durber – AELP

For further information about the material quoted in this episode visit:

• Great Jobs Report
• The Workforce for the Future programme
• Unlock a better way ahead - Skills for life
• AELP Webinar: Maximising opportunities to develop your learners' Green Skills
• AELP Green Skills Summit: Sustainability is now the 'fourth functional skill'
• City & Guilds Foundation: Support for a Green start
• City & Guilds social media: Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube

To hear more insights on the essential jobs that keep the UK moving, healthy and working, you can subscribe to the podcast.
Listeners may also be interested in a podcast series by the City & Guilds Foundation.

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Welcome (00:00:47)

3. Why do we need to level up the country? (00:01:18)

4. Supporting the adoption of green skills (00:04:33)

5. How is the West of England planning to recruit and train individuals needed to meet the regions net zero target? (00:10:41)

6. Attracting and training under-represented and disadvantaged groups (00:14:32)

7. Challenges and opportunities facing the skills sector (00:16:26)

8. Equipping people who face barriers to the workplace to get into work by attaining green skills (00:21:13)

9. The demographic interest in Groundwork’s community-focused projects (00:25:04)

10. Magical wand solutions to help people find work in green, sustainable jobs (00:27:49)

11. Conclusion (00:30:27)