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Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs)聽unite聽employers, Strategic Authorities, higher education,聽further education聽and Independent Training Providers and wider stakeholders in solving skills challenges together.聽

贰补肠丑听LSIP聽is led by a聽designated聽Employer Representative Body聽(ERB).聽Information about the ERBs (and聽dates聽of designation) and links to the current LSIPs (published summer 2023)聽and Annual Progress Reports聽(published in 2024 and 2025)聽for each area of the country are available below.聽

Employers,聽 higher education,聽further education聽and Independent Training Providers, and any other stakeholders with an interest in skills are encouraged to聽make contact with聽the designated聽ERB聽that聽is responsible for聽the local plan.

North-east

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
North East (comprises the existing North of Tyne and North East LSIPs)	- designated in August 2025	County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland Strategic Authority: North East Combined Authority
Tees Valley	- designated in September 2022	Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland, Stockton on Tees Strategic Authority: Tees Valley Combined Authority

North-west

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Cheshire and Warrington	- designated in October 2022	Cheshire East, Cheshire West and Chester, Warrington
Cumbria	- designated in September 2022	Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness
Greater Manchester	- designated in October 2025	Bolton, Bury, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford, Stockport, Tameside, Trafford, Wigan Strategic Authority: Greater Manchester Combined Authority
Lancashire	- designated in September 2022	Lancashire, Blackburn with Darwen, Blackpool Strategic Authority: Lancashire Combined County Authority
Liverpool City Region	- designated in August 2024	Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens, Wirral Strategic Authority: Liverpool City Region Combined Authority

Yorkshire and the Humber

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Hull and East Yorkshire	- designated in September 2022	East Riding of Yorkshire, Kingston upon Hull Strategic Authority: Hull and East Yorkshire Combined Authority
South Yorkshire	- designated in September 2022	Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield Strategic Authority: South Yorkshire Mayoral Combined Authority
West Yorkshire	- designated in September 2022	Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds, Wakefield Strategic Authority: West Yorkshire Combined Authority
York and North Yorkshire	- designated in September 2022	North Yorkshire, York Strategic Authority: York and North Yorkshire Combined Authority

East Midlands

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
East Midlands	- designated in September 2022	Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire Strategic Authority: East Midlands Combined County Authority
Greater Lincolnshire (comprised of part of the existing Greater Lincolnshire and Rutland LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire Strategic Authority: Greater Lincolnshire Combined County Authority
Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (comprised of parts of the existing Greater Lincolnshire and Rutland LSIP and Leicester and Leicestershire LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Leicester, Leicestershire, Rutland
South-East Midlands	- designated in September 2022	Bedford, Central Bedfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, North Northamptonshire, West Northamptonshire

West Midlands

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Stoke-on-Trent and Staffordshire	- designated in September 2022	Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire
The Marches	- designated in September 2022	Herefordshire, Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin
Warwickshire (comprised of part of the existing West Midlands and Warwickshire LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Warwickshire Strategic Authority: Warwickshire County Council
West Midlands (comprised of part of the existing West Midlands and Warwickshire LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Birmingham, Coventry, Dudley, Sandwell, Solihull, Walsall, Wolverhampton Strategic Authority: West Midlands Combined Authority
Worcestershire	- designated in September 2022	Worcestershire

East

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Cambridgeshire and Peterborough	- designated in September 2022	Cambridgeshire, Peterborough Strategic Authority: Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Combined Authority
Greater Essex	- designated in September 2022	Essex, Southend-on-Sea, Thurrock
Hertfordshire	- designated in September 2022	Hertfordshire
Norfolk and Suffolk	- designated in September 2022	Norfolk, Suffolk

Greater London

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Greater London (a single LSIP covers the Greater London Authority area)	- designated in September 2022	Barking and Dagenham, Barnet, Bexley, Brent, Bromley, Camden, City of London, Croydon, Ealing, Enfield, Greenwich, Hackney, Hammersmith and Fulham, Haringey, Harrow, Havering, Hillingdon, Hounslow, Islington, Kensington and Chelsea, Kingston Upon Thames, Lambeth, Lewisham, Merton, Newham, Redbridge, Richmond upon Thames, Southwark, Sutton, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Wandsworth, Westminster Strategic Authority: Greater London Authority

South-East

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Buckinghamshire	- designated in September 2022	Buckinghamshire Strategic Authority: Buckinghamshire Council
Hampshire and Solent (comprised of parts of the existing Solent and Enterprise M3聽LEP LSIPs)	- designated in August 2025	Hampshire, Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton
Kent and Medway	- designated in September 2022	Kent, Medway
Oxfordshire	- designated in September 2022	Oxfordshire
Surrey (comprised of part of the existing Enterprise M3聽LEP LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Surrey Strategic Authority: Surrey County Council
Sussex and Brighton	- designated in September 2022	Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex
Thames Valley Berkshire	- designated in September 2022	Bracknell Forest, Reading, Slough, West Berkshire, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham

South-West

LSIP specified area	Designated ERB and effective date	Locations covered
Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly	- designated in September 2022	Cornwall, The Isles of Scilly Strategic Authority: Cornwall Council
Dorset		Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole, Dorset
Gloucestershire	- designated in September 2022	Gloucestershire
Greater Devon (comprised of part of the existing Heart of the South West LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Devon, Plymouth, Torbay Strategic Authority: Devon and Torbay Combined County Authority
Somerset (comprised of part of the existing Heart of the South West LSIP)	- designated in August 2025	Somerset
Swindon and Wiltshire	- designated in September 2022	Swindon, Wiltshire
West of England and North Somerset	- designated in September 2022	Bristol, Bath and North East Somerset, North Somerset, South Gloucestershire Strategic Authority: West of England

LSIP transitional areas

Ahead of the development of the new round of LSIPs (that began in October 2025), the聽LSIP聽specified areas (geographies) were reviewed to ensure alignment with Strategic Authority boundaries, where possible. This was to help facilitate the policy intent in the聽English Devolution White Paper聽of joint ownership of the聽LSIP聽model between聽ERBs聽and Strategic Authorities, in areas with devolution.聽 Where an聽LSIP聽specified area has changed, the designated聽ERB聽listed below will remain designated to lead the implementation and review of the existing聽LSIP until a new聽LSIP(s) covering the area is published in Summer 2026.

LSIP聽specified area	顿别蝉颈驳苍补迟别诲听ERB	Locations covered
Enterprise M3聽LEP (now covered by the Hampshire and Solent LSIP and Surrey LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Hampshire (excluding the districts of Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest), Surrey
Greater Lincolnshire and Rutland (now covered by the Greater Lincolnshire LSIP and Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Lincolnshire, North Lincolnshire, North East Lincolnshire, Rutland
Heart of the South West (now covered by the Greater Devon LSIP and Somerset LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Devon, Plymouth, Torbay, and Somerset
Leicester and Leicestershire (now covered by the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Leicester and Leicestershire
North East (now covered by the new North East LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	County Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle, North Tyneside, Northumberland, South Tyneside and Sunderland Strategic Authority: North-East Combined Authority
Solent (now covered by the Hampshire and Solent LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Isle of Wight, Portsmouth, Southampton, and the following districts in Hampshire: Eastleigh, Fareham, Gosport, Havant, New Forest
West Midlands and Warwickshire (now covered by the West Midlands LSIP and Warwickshire LSIP)	- designated in September 2022	Warwickshire, West Midlands Combined Authority

For the purposes of the LSIPs programme and this page, the term Strategic Authority is used to mean mayoral and non-mayoral combined authorities, combined county authorities, and the Greater London Authority. It also includes those single Local Authority areas that have adult skills functions conferred on them by regulations made under the Cities and Local Government Devolution Act 2016.