Leigh McLaughlin
Employment & Skills Coordinator (Social Value)
Leigh is Lancashire LEP Social Value Employment and Skills Coordinator. He is responsible for embedding social value, working proactively with the Skills Hub team, Lancashire County Council, the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership and wider authorities, employers, providers and partners.
Leigh has worked in a range of sectors focussing on roles that have supported the socio-economic development of people, places and communities. Leigh has experience in local government, transport, further education and most recently worked in Social Housing where he won several awards for his work around embedding social value into procurement, partnerships and capital projects.
Latest Updates and Events
The Final Countdown a celebration of the achievements of the Multiply programme
The Lancashire Skills and Employment Hub recently hosted the Multiply: The Final Countdown event to celebrate the achievements of the Multiply programme. This event provided a platform...
County Council to provide £300,000 to incentivise further apprenticeships
The council’s innovative Young Apprenticeship Grant scheme was introduced in 2022 and has already led to no less than 126 young people getting off to a flying...
“Young people will have been failed if action is not taken”: Major new report on Digital Skills presented to Government by cross-sector partnership
Every school and college should appoint an individual responsible for digital education, create a new modular and continually updated digital qualification, and introduce an independent, cross-sector Digital Education...