Sector Skills Councils

At the heart of the Skills for Business network are 25 Sector Skills Councils (SSCs).

Each SSC is an employer-led, independent organisation that covers a specific sector across the UK.

For more information, go to the Sector Skills Development Agency website|

Below is an alphabetic list of job areas - scroll down to your the type of job you are interested and click on it to go to relevant Sector Skills Council.

Active Learning         SkillsActive
|Active Leisure          SkillsActive
|Advertising     Creative & Cultural Skills
|Aerospace    SEMTA
|Apparel and related industries     Skillfast-UK
|Arts         Creative & Cultural Skills
|Audio-visual industries Skillset|                                                                                                                                                                          
Automotive Skills SEMTA|                                                                                                                                                                           

Bicycle manufacturing SEMTA
|Bioscience  SEMTA
|Boats    SEMTA
|Bricklaying     CITB-Construction Skills|
Building services    Summitskills|

Caravan industries          SkillsActive
|Care Social     Skills for Care and Development
|Chemical  industries     Cogent
|Children        Skills for Care and Development|
Cleaning services/management   Asset Skills
|Clothing and related industries     Skillfast-UK
|Community justice         Skills for Justice|
Construction    CITB-Construction Skills|
Contact industries         e-skills UK|
Court and prosecution services        Skills for Justice|
Crafts           Creative & Cultural Skills|
Cultural Heritage       Creative & Cultural Skills
|Custodial care         Skills for Justice|

Design        Creative & Cultural Skills
|Drink manufacturing and processing    Improve Ltd
|

Electrical equipment        SEMTA
|Electricity    Energy & Utility Skills|
Electronics         SEMTA
|Engineering       Summitskills
|Environmental     Lantra|

Facilities management   Asset Skills|
Film   Skillset|
Financial Services     Financial Services Skills Council
|Fitness/health    SkillsActive|
Food manufacturing and processing    Improve Ltd|
Footwear and related industries     Skillfast-UK|
Forensic science    SEMTA|
Freight logistics industry    Skills for Logistics|

Gas    Energy & Utility Skills|
Gas  industries     Cogent
|Government       Government Skills| SSC Secretariat

Health sector across the UK           Skills for Health
|Hospitality     People 1st|
Housing      management   Asset Skills
|

Information technology       e-skills UK
|IT       e-skills UK|       

Land-based industries    Lantra|
Law enforcement          Skills for Justice
|Learning Lifelong      Lifelonglearning UK|
Leisure        People 1st|
Leisure and learning (Active)   SkillsActive|
Lifelong Learning      Lifelonglearning UK
|

Manufacturing and Processing industries           Proskills UK|
Manufacturing technologies Proskills UK|
Mechanical equipment        SEMTA
|Metal basic manufacture      SEMTA|
Metal products           SEMTA|
Metrology       SEMTA|
Motor retail industry    SEMTA|
Motor vehicles manufacturing     SEMTA|
Motorcycle manufacturing     SEMTA|
Music        Creative & Cultural Skills
|

Nano-technology   SEMTA   SEMTA|
Nuclear  industries     Cogent
|

Oil  industries     Cogent
|Outdoors industries         SkillsActive
|

Passenger Transport       Goskills
|Petroleum  industries     Cogent
|Plastering     CITB-Construction Skills
|Playwork         SkillsActive
|Policing         Skills for Justice|
Polymer industries     Cogent
|Process and manufacturing industries           Proskills UK|
Property services management   Asset Skills|

Railway and tramway locomotives   SEMTA|
Retail       Skillsmart
|Rolling stock     SEMTA|

Science    SEMTA
|Ships, building and repairing     SEMTA
|Social care     Skills for Care and Development|
Sport and Recreation      SkillsActive
|

Telecommunications        e-skills UK
|Television      Skillset
|Textiles and related industries     Skillfast-UK
|Tourism             People 1st
|Transport equipment    SEMTA
|Transport passenger       Goskills
|Travel Tourism         People 1st
|

Visual audio industries     Skillset
|

Waste management    Energy & Utility Skills
|Water industries    Energy & Utility Skills|

Young People      Skills for Care and Development|

Skills Assetts

Asset Skills
Sector: Property services, housing, cleaning services and facilities management 

Asset Skills
2 The Courtyard
48 New North Road
Exeter
Devon
EX4 4EP

Tel 01392 423 399 
Email enquiries@assetskills.org 
Web www.assetskills.org 

Automotive Skills

Sector: The retail motor industry 

Automotive Skills
93 Newman Street
London
W1T 3DT

Tel 020 7436 6373 
Email info@automotiveskills.org.uk 
Web www.automotiveskills.org.uk 

Cogent

 

Sector: Chemical, nuclear, oil and gas, petroleum and polymer industries 
Post 

Cogent

Unit 5, Mandarin Court

Centre Park

Warrington

WA1 1GG
Tel 01925515200 
Email info@cogent-ssc.com 
Web www.cogent-ssc.com 

Construction

 

Sector: Construction 

CITB-ConstructionSkills

Bircham Newton

Kings Lynn

Norfolk

PE31 6RH
Tel 01485 577 577 
Email 

information.centre@citb.co.uk
Web www.constructionskills.net 

Creative and Cultural Skills

 

Sector:

Advertising, crafts, cultural heritage, design, The Arts and mu

Creative & Cultural Skills

11 Southwark Street
London
SE1 1RQ
Tel 
020 7089 5866
Email info@ccskills.org.uk  
Web www.ccskills.org.uk 

Energy & Utility Skills

 

Sector: Electricity, gas, waste management and water industries 
Post 

Energy & Utility Skills

Friars Gate Two

1011 Stratford Road

Shirley

Solihull

West Midlands

B90 4BN
Tel 0845 077 9922 
Email enquiries@euskills.co.uk 
Web www.euskills.co.uk 

e-skills UK

 

Sector: Information technology, telecommunications and contact centres 

e-skills UK

1 Castle Lane

London

SW1E 6DR
Tel 020 7963 8920 
Email info@e-skills.com 
Web www.e-skills.com

SummitSkills

 

Sector: Building services engineering 

SummitSkills

Vega House

Opal Drive

Fox Milne

Milton Keynes

MK15 0DF
Tel 01908 303960 
Fax 01908 303989 
Email enquiries@summitskills.org.uk 
Web www.summitskills.org.uk 
 

Skillsmart Retail

 

Sector: Retail 

Skillsmart Retail
40 Duke Street
London
W1A 1AB
Tel 020 7399 3450 
Email contactus@skillsmartretail.com  
Web www.skillsmartretail.com 

Skillset

 

Sector:  Audio visual industries

Skillset

Prospect House

80-110 New Oxford Street

London

WC1A 1HB
Tel 020 7520 5757 
Email info@skillset.org 
Web www.skillset.org 

SkillsActive

 

Sector: Active leisure and learning 

SkillsActive

Castlewood House

77-91 New Oxford Street

London

WC1A 1PX
Tel 020 7632 2000 
Email skills@skillsactive.com 
Web www.skillsactive.com 

Skills for Logistics

 

Sector: Freight logistics industry 

Skills for Logistics

14 Warren Yard

Warren Farm Office Village

Milton Keynes

MK12 5NW
Tel 01908 313 360 
Email info@skillsforlogistics.org 
Web www.skillsforlogistics.org 

Skills for Justice

 

Sector:

Custodial care, community justice, court and prosecution services, policing and law enforcement.

Skills for Justice

9-11 Riverside Court

Don Road

Sheffield

S9 2TJ
Tel 0114 261 1499 
Email 
info@skillsforjustice.com
Web 
www.skillsforjustice.com

Skills for Health

 

Sector:  The health sector across the UK

Skills for Health

1st Floor

Goldsmiths House

Broad Plain

Bristol

BS2 0JP
Tel 0117 922 1155 
Email office@skillsforhealth.org.uk 
Web www.skillsforhealth.org.uk 

Skills for Care and Development

 

Sector: Social care, children and young people 

Skills for Care and Development

General enquiries:
sscinfo@skillsforcareanddevelopment.org.uk
 

England:
Andrea Rowe, CEO of Skills for Care
0113 245 1716
sscadmin@skillsforcare.org.uk

Skillfast-UK

 

Sector: Apparel, footwear and textiles and related businesses industry 

Skillfast-UK

Richmond House

Lawnswood Business Park

Redvers Close

Leeds

LS16 6RD
Tel 0113 2399 600 
Email enquiries@skillfast-uk.org 
Web www.skillfast-uk.org 

SEMTA

 

Sector: Science, engineering and manufacturing technologies 

SEMTA

14 Upton Road

Watford

Hertfordshire

WD18 0JT
Tel 01923 238 441 
Email infodesk@semta.org.uk 
Web www.semta.org.uk 

Proskills UK

Sector: Process and manufacturing industries 

Proskills UK Ltd
Centurion House
85B Milton Park
Abingdon
Oxon
OX14 4RY
Tel 01235 833844 
Email info@proskills.co.uk  
Web www.proskills.co.uk 

People 1st

 

Sector: Hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism 

People 1st
2nd Floor
Armstrong House
38 Market Square
Uxbridge
Middlesex
UB8 1LH
Tel 
0870 060 2550
Email info@people1st.co.uk 
Web www.people1st.co.uk 

Lifelong Learning UK

 

Sector:

Employers who deliver and/or support the delivery of lifelong learnin

Lifelong Learning UK
5th Floor
St Andrew's House
18-20 St Andrew Street
London
EC4A 3AY
Tel 0870 757 7890 
Email enquiries@lifelonglearninguk.org 
Web 

www.lifelonglearninguk.org

Lantra

 

Sector: Environmental and land-based industries 

Lantra
Lantra House
Stoneleigh Park
Nr Coventry
Warwickshire
CV8 2LG
Tel 024 7669 6996 
Email connect@lantra.co.uk 
Web www.lantra.co.uk 

Improve Ltd

Sector: Food and drink manufacturing and processing 
Post 
Improve Ltd
Ground Floor
Providence House
2 Innovation Close
Heslington
York
YO10 5ZF
Tel 

0845 644 0448
Web www.improveltd.co.uk 
Email info@improveltd.co.uk 

Government Skills

 

Sector:

Central Government

Government Skills SSC Secretariat

c/o Cabinet Office

Admirality Arch

The Mall

London SW1A 2WH
Tel 020 7276 1611 
Email cgssc@cabinet-office.x.gsi.gov.uk 

GoSkills

 

Sector: Passenger transport 

GoSkills

Concorde House

Trinity Park

Solihull

West Midlands

B37 7UQ
Tel 0121 635 5520 
Email info@goskills.org 
Web www.goskills.org 

Financial Services Skills Council

 

Sector: Financial services industry 

Financial Services Skills Council

51 Gresham Street

London

EC2V 7HQ
Tel 020 7216 7366 
Email info@fssc.org.uk 
Web www.fssc.org.uk 

Improve Ltd

 

Sector: Food and drink manufacturing and processing

Improve Ltd
Ground Floor
Providence House
2 Innovation Close
Heslington
York
YO10 5ZF
Tel 0845 644 0448
 
Web www.improveltd.co.uk
Email info@improveltd.co.uk