What is a Sector Skills Council (SSC)?

There are 25 Sector Skills Councils for the UK workforce. Together they form the Skills for Business Network (SfBN).

Each SSC works to agree priorities and targets with its employers and partners to address four key goals:

• reducing skills gaps and shortages
• improving productivity, business and public service performance
• increasing opportunities to boost the skills and productivity of everyone in the sector's workforce, including action on equal opportunities
• improving learning supply, including apprenticeships, higher education and national occupational standards