To Sustainability and Beyond Debbie Watson Director of Policy & Innovation 31st March 2009

LSC Strategy to 2010 From Here to Sustainability Vision The learning and skills sector will proactively commit and contribute to sustainable development through: its management of resources the learning opportunities it delivers its engagement with communities and business

LSC Strategy to 2010 From Here to Sustainability Progress Report Recognise the contribution of mainstream work Significant progress has been made in some areas but not in others Measures of progress need clarifying Changing context Gaps in the strategy

Beyond 2010

A new vision or more of the same? Management of resources Learning opportunities Engagement with communities and business PLUS Leadership

Whose vision is it anyway? Provider organisations in the sector Learning and Skills Improvement Service Ofsted DIUS/DCSF/Local Authorities Most importantly, individual providers: “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever does” Margaret Mead