Lifelong Learning UK Relicensing

To continue operating, each of the UK's 25 Sector Skills Councils will have to reapply for a licence, which will be awarded if the organisation can demonstrate the confidence, support and influence of employers within their sector across all four UK nations. The relicensing assessments will be carried out by the National Audit Office as an independent third party in consultation with employers and others using a process designed to be consistent, robust and effective. The emphasis of relicensing will be on the sector and how Sector Skills Councils are viewed by employers and stakeholders. The Commission will be looking at the value Sector Skills Councils have added since original licensing and the difference that has been made to the sector covered by the Sector Skills Council.

The relicensing programme focuses on individual Sector Skills Council performance. To achieve relicensed status each Sector Skills Council must demonstrate the confidence, support and influence of employers within their sector - private, public and third sector - in each of the four nations.

More information can be found on the following pages.