One of the priorities identified by the Energy & Utility Skills Partnership (EUSP) CEO Council is strengthening the sector’s voice on the workforce and skills issues that matter most to employers. To support that ambition, more than 50 industry experts, including members trade associations, endorsees and partners, are now contributing their expertise across a range of policy development activities, helping to shape the sector’s future priorities and collective asks.
The EUSP CEO Council has highlighted the importance of ensuring the sector can speak with a stronger, more coordinated voice on workforce and skills challenges which will help to support the ambitions of the Energy & Utility Skills’ Skills Strategy 2025–2030. Turning those ambitions into action requires expertise from across industry.
The work underway is helping to identify and develop new policy priorities that reflect the experiences of employers across the energy and utilities sector. Industry experts are contributing evidence, sharing operational insight and testing ideas that can help strengthen the sector’s position on workforce, skills and industry challenges. By drawing together views from a broad range of organisations and specialisms, the sector is building a stronger evidence base to support future engagement with decision-makers.
Insights and recommendations developed through these delivery groups help inform wider policy and public affairs activity, creating a route for emerging priorities and policy asks to be considered by sector leadership. This ensures that the experience and expertise of industry can directly influence the conversations taking place at CEO Council level and further afield in governments and at local policy level.
This breadth of experience helps ensure that emerging policy priorities reflect the needs of a diverse and evolving workforce. By involving industry professionals from across the sector, Energy & Utility Skills is developing priorities that are informed by practical expertise and shaped by those closest to the issues.
Andrew Findlay, CEO at M Group and Co-Chair of the EUSP CEO Council, said:
“The CEO Council’s role is to identify, highlight and address the issues that matter most to the future of our sector and its role in delivering for the UK. The combined knowledge, insight and commitment of the sector will develop and drive practical policies to support employers, strengthen workforces, and shape future decision-making.”
Stephen Barrett, Director of Membership and Strategic Engagement at Energy & Utility Skills Group, added:
“The development of our policy priorities is being driven by the industry, for the industry. More than 50 experts are already helping shape the sector’s future agenda, bringing valuable insight from across energy and utilities.
Their contribution is helping turn the EUSP CEO Council’s ambition for a stronger sector voice into practical action. As this work grows, we’re encouraging even more industry experts to get involved and help shape the priorities that matter most to employers and the future workforce.”
More experts wanted
As work continues to develop new policy priorities, there is an opportunity for more of the industry to get involved.
Whether you have expertise in workforce planning, skills development, recruitment, operations, regulation, innovation or public policy, your insight can help shape the sector’s future agenda.
By participating, the energy and utilities sector can contribute to the development of policy priorities, collaborate with peers and help ensure the sector’s voice is informed by the broadest possible range of experience.
If you would like to support the development of future policy priorities and contribute to the work being taken forward through our policy and public affairs programme, we’d like to hear from you at collaborate@euskills.co.uk
