Celebrating collaborative LSIPs at Business LDN Skills Summit 2025
In March, we were delighted to join partners delivering Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) across London at Business LDN’s Skills Summit 2025.
Now in its second year of delivery, London’s Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) are employer-led and data-driven blueprint for aligning training and education with current and future business needs.
The Skills Summit brought together 200 business leaders, education and training providers, government stakeholders and London’s sub-regional partnerships to celebrate the collaboration that employer-led and data-driven LSIPs have created to help close skills gaps across London.
Rt Hon Baroness Smith of Malvern, Minister for Skills, and Mete Coban MBE, Deputy Mayor for London for Environment and Energy addressed the Summit, which explored how businesses, training providers and public sector bodies can progress the transformation of skills and training in London in an era of change and new ambition.
Speaking at the event Forogh Rahmani, Director of Local London outlined the importance of the LSIP for the sub-region: “Our LSIP is the result of research with businesses and stakeholders across our nine boroughs, highlighting five key sectors and eight cross-cutting themes that we are addressing to help close skills gaps. Through the Skills Providers Network, colleges and training providers are responding positively to employers needs, developing courses and learning solutions that make the most of local resources to prepare people across our boroughs for work in high-demand and growing sectors. This is strengthening relationships and ultimately helping people gain the job skills they need to enjoy exciting careers here.”
Joined by Chris Burr, Group Director – Partnership and Strategy, and Philip Bourne Digital Consultant from London South East Colleges, we shared what is happening in our boroughs with the pan-London audience. This includes the development of high-tech immersive learning suites implemented across 20 Collaborative Delivery Partners (CDPs) that will help colleges share resources and better prepare learners for work in key sectors.
Attendees also gained valuable insights into the innovative strategies and partnerships that are shaping the skills landscape in the sub-region through the Local London Skills Providers Network.
The LSIP initiative has been confirmed for another three years with a refresh planned for autumn 2025 under the oversight of Skills England, which aims to build a coherent picture of skills gaps across the country and how they can be addressed.
Find out more about our LSIP work: www.local.london/lsip
Watch the film: https://youtu.be/aOAbu9XU1ik