Purpose and Principles:
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Purpose:
(i)
To sustain and promote Bracknell Forest’s
thriving economy.
(ii)
To promote skills and availability of local people
to fill local jobs as a key element of sustaining the local
economy.
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Terms of reference:
(i)
Create and sustain a vision for economic well-being
and skills development for all living and working in Bracknell
Forest.
(ii)
Lead the economic development, enterprise, and
skills elements of the Local Area Agreement
(iii)
Address the Regional Economic Strategy in Bracknell
Forest, including the principles of “smart
growth”
(iv)
Ensure that local economic developments benefit
local people
(v)
Develop a dialogue with business and educational and
skills learning providers around common interests to make Bracknell
Forest a better place in which to do business
(vi)
Maximise the number of local people in local
employment
(vii)
Ensure that the benefits of regeneration are enjoyed
by existing and new residents.
(viii)
Provide the spatial context (physical, social,
environmental, economic) for existing businesses to remain in the
borough, and for new start up businesses to be
encouraged.
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Key roles:
(i)
Stimulate leadership and consensus over economic and
skills issues in Bracknell Forest
(ii)
Engaging with the local economy and businesses to
remove barriers to success where possible
(iii)
The key forum for economic and skills issues arising
from national, regional and local plans/initiatives
(iv)
Implement and monitor local economic and skills
development plans
(v)
Identify sources of funding that would help achieve
local plans
(vi)
Research activity or action needed to underpin the
long term economic success of the Borough
(vii)
Address the changing sub-regional economic
development agenda
(viii)
Actively work with surrounding areas to sustain the
local and Thames Valley economy, including liaison with the
Berkshire Economic Strategy Board.
(ix)
Lead the production of a local economic
assessment
(x)
Acknowledge and support the Council’s future
skills commissioning role for training and skills promotion
following the dissolution of the Learning and Skills
Council.