The Communities and Skills directorate work with and through partners to ensure Londoners can shape healthy, empowered and productive lives. Within the directorate sits the Skills & Employment unit which is responsible for delivering the Mayors vision for skills and employment support to help Londoners and the capitals communities and businesses to thrive.
About the team
Londons skills and employment system plays a key role in supporting Londoners to get the skills they need to improve their lives and for Londons economy to thrive.
Our skills system is the highest performing in the country and the Mayor of London has recently reached the important milestone of having supported the participation of over 1 million learners through his adult education programmes, since taking control of Londons Adult Education Budget (AEB) in 2019. Through further devolution of powers, funding and decision making, we want to support even more Londoners to transform their lives.
The work of the strategy, policy and relationships team includes writing the strategies and developing new thinking that brings to life the Mayors vision for skills and employment. We also lead public affairs, community engagement, and marketing campaigns, providing data, evidence and analysis, to make sure we are responding to Londons needs.
The team is warm and inclusive and has had led on a number of policies that h...