The Strategic Group will:
- Provide a focus for the wide ranging Skills for Life activities across the county
- Fulfil responsibilities as individual members by adhering to the principles set out in the partnership agreement
- Develop a framework for the production of a Nottinghamshire Skills for Life action plan
- Develop a detailed understanding of the complexity of local need (where necessary commissioning additional research)
- Provide the focal point for dialogue with key local, regional and national organisations and strategic forums
- Members will communicate the NSfLP mission/agenda/progress etc both within their own organisation and across the broader external networks/forums they belong too.
- Receive reports from locality and standing working groups and contribute/share information with relevant boards and local/regional strategic forums
- Receive and endorse a six monthly update report and an annual report which sets out progress achieved and proposed priorities for the following year
- Identify areas for development and additional resources
- Encourage more effective co-ordination of resources including funding bids
- Work with and through short term and standing working groups which will raise issues and develop solutions
- Scrutinise and challenge partners and the broader community about the commitment to the Skills for Life challenge
- Encourage better communications through the support for a county wide Skills for Life web site and database
- Maximise the opportunities for partner collaboration and the sharing of good practice and the development of innovative models of service provision and delivery
- Review the membership and activity of the locality and standing working groups
The chair of the Strategic Group will be elected by a simple majority vote. Only members of the Strategic Group will be eligible for election as chair. Tenure will be for one year, renewable by agreement of the Strategic Group or by a new majority vote.
