Evidence Base
Our research into the skills needs and requirements of Lancashire's priority business sectors including our Labour Market Intelligence.
Skills, Employment and Socio-Economic Evidence Base Dashboard
To support our Skills and Employment stakeholders, 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 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:
- Employment
- Unemployment (Claimant Count and LFS)
- Self-Employment
- Economic Inactivity
- The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme
- Apprenticeship Starts
- Vacancies
- Sector Employment, Economic output, and Business numbers
- Productivity (£) per filled job and per hour worked
- Business births and deaths, high growth firms, and survival rates
- Employment by occupation
- Qualification levels of the population
- Investment by asset type, area and sector, and per head.
- Forecast qualification demand
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.
2022/23 Careers Information Advice and Guidance Resources by Travel to Work Area
This section contains six Careers Information Advice and Guidance Presentations for each of Lancashire’s six Travel to Work Areas. You can access each of the reports by clicking on the relevant section below, they are available as an online hosted animated presentation, a static powerpoint, and an animated YouTube clip of around 3 minutes.
These resources were designed in conjunction with both Careers Professionals and Young People, and are designed to present the latest Labour Market Information for each Travel to Work Area in an engaging and accessible format. Over 1,300 young people in Lancashire were surveyed to come up with a design style and tone that speaks to them, and a focus group of young people in Lancashire decided the result.
| Travel to Work Area | Animated Presentations | Powerpoints | PDFs | YouTube Videos |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
| Blackburn with Darwen, Hyndburn, Rossendale and Ribble Valley | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
| Burnley and Pendle | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
| Lancaster and Morecambe | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
| Preston, Chorley and South Ribble | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
| West Lancashire | Go to presentation | Download Powerpoint | Download PDF | Go to YouTube |
As part of this work, we also produced three animations on exciting future opportunities for Young People in Lancashire, one on Digital and Cyber, one on Green Energy and Low Carbon, and one that is a generic LMI for all. These can be viewed on YouTube here:
Energy and Low Carbon Cyber and Creative LMI for All Advanced Manufacturing Social Care