Evidence Base

Skills, Employment and Socio-Economic Evidence Base Dashboard

To support our Skills and Employment stakeholders, and local authority colleagues and wider partners we have developed a data pack to provide the latest available data covering many skills, employment and socio-economic themes.

The data presented will evolve and grow over time, and at present contains almost 60 pages of data visualisation and analysis on a variety of measures, mainly through the lens of local performance in the context of the Lancashire LEP and Lancashire County Council averages, and the North West and National averages.

Where possible this data is presented at a Local/Unitary Authority level, Travel to Work Area (TTWA) level and then given LEP, Regional and National context.

The data covers topics such as:

Many of these measures are in direct response to the emergence of different policy initiatives. The selection of data is designed to help stakeholders landscape their local economies, support investment plans and bids to funding to tackle skills and education challenges, as well as wider socio-economic challenges.

A great many of these measures are automatically linked to the source of the data via API, helping to ensure the data contained in the dashboard is as up to date as possible almost as soon as the data is released.

This evidence base identifies key issues in driving a skilled, balanced and inclusive labour market.

We have created a comprehensive evidence base and used it to build on the previous Skills and Employment Strategic Framework 2016-2021 to develop the Lancashire Skills and Employment Strategic Framework 2021 Refresh, which incorporates the Local Skills Report for Lancashire, as required by the Department for Education (DfE).

The Labour Market Supplement supports the Framework’s 2021 Refresh and contains the detailed data and analysis that underpins the rationale for the priorities, objectives and actions within the Framework.

The Skills and Employment Board have agreed that the framework should be refreshed for a one year period, recognising the unique circumstances that Lancashire and the UK in general has entered, and as such the Framework draws on both pre and current COVID-19 data.

In 2022, each Skills Advisory Panel (SAP) ( now the Skills and Employment Board) was required by the Department for Education (DfE) to update their Local Skills Report, with the exception of those who had a Local Skills Improvement Plan (LSIP) trailblazer in their SAP area. Annex A contains analysis of a standard data set prescribed by DfE, for SAP areas to analyse and add local commentary. As Lancashire had an LSIP trailblazer, we opted to refresh Annex A, which underpins the Local Skills Report, and this data has been considered in the context of our 2021 Lancashire Skills and Employment Strategic Framework.

The Evidence Base contains data and research which is available to stakeholders to access and utilise.

• Interactive Power BI Evidence Base dashboard (above)

Pre COVID-data can now be found in the Reports section of this page.

• LMI Data Matrix.
• Labour Market Intelligence (LMI) reports
• Reports on Lancashire’s Priority Sectors
• Gap Analyses regarding flexible provision for those aged 16-18
• LMI Resources