The Impact of the Economic Recession
The Alliance of Sector Skills Councils has produced its first report reflecting employers' views of the impact of the recession.
The Report can be downloaded here - Recession Report (May 09)
The purpose of this report is twofold:
- Firstly to highlight some of the common themes and issues that have been raised byemployers across a number of different sectors of economic activity in relation to thecurrent economic downturn. Although the economic downturn is affecting industrial sectors in England differently, there are nevertheless a number of common issues across a number of sectors that have been identified as a result of employer consultation carried out by different Sector Skills Councils (SSCs).
- Secondly, to provide a brief overview of the impact of the economic downturn, particularly in relation to its differential impact across and within different sectors of economic activity. This overview will also seek to highlight key issues raised by employers as a result of consultation carried out by SSCs. This is achieved by the presentation of one-page summary sheets from each of the SSCs which seek to portray the main impacts of the recession across and within different sectors of economic activity. In some instances the summaries have been based on more substantive recession-related research carried out by individual SSCs and where this is the case, appropriate references to the original research have been provided. The 25 one page SSC summary sheets are included in Annex One of this report.
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