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Through a range of keynote speakers, workshops and panel discussions the 2025 Conference will focus on the key areas that will enable economic growth, through the targeting skills reform, improved recruitment and retention, and how to develop sustainable interventions that support better business engagement with educators.

We will then explore East Midlands business approach to equality, diversity and inclusion, this will focus on research undertaken by the Chamber and emh Group, which took place in 2024 following a similar study the year before. We will be exploring the recommendations from the report as to how we support businesses in their EDI journey, creating more inclusive and successful workplaces, businesses and those that support them.

Overview

Set against a backdrop of data, taken from our Quarterly Economic Survey highlighting that employer’s post-budget expectations will mean a re-envisioning of their employment strategies, the day will bring together speakers, panellists and workshop content that will provide delegates with practical takeaways to improve productivity gains and develop your people, skills and EDI strategies.

Agenda (to be finalised)

- Department for Education – Skills England and Get Britain Working (tbc)

- Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) – the work so far and future plans, Dr Gareth Thomas, MD, Skills & Employment Support Ltd

LSIPs provide an agreed set of actionable priorities that employers, providers and other stakeholders in a local area can get behind to drive change. We will revisit the successes so far and the direction of travel moving forward.

- Rethinking Young People’s Careers in a Changing Workforce - Professor in Work Psychology and the Head or the Work and Organisation Group) Loughborough University

Do young people have different career-values? What attracts young people to work in an organisation and how can we assure that they stay? Organisations continue to be worried about skills shortages, while simultaneously youth unemployment is dramatically on the rise.

This keynote will offer a people-centric perspective on the career journey and highlight how organisations are crucial in offering the skills, networks and motivations for young people’s careers, by referring to own and others empirical research.

- Panel discussion on recruitment, retention, productivity and government policy

- How to support businesses in their EDI journey, creating more inclusive and successful workplaces, businesses and those that support them.

- Panel discussion on EDI

- Workshops - There will be two sets of Workshops, with a choice of one of four topics

Additional Information

The conference currently has sponsorship and exhibitor opportunities available.

If you would like more information on these, please email policy@emc-dnl.co.uk

This event is available for: Anybody

24th June 2025

9:00am - 1:30pm

In-Person

West Park Teaching Hub, Loughborough, LE11 3QF

FREE

Members must Sign in / Register to purchase member only tickets

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*All our business prices are excluding VAT at 20%.

For further information on this event, please contact The Policy Team on 0333 320 0333 or email policy@emc-dnl.co.uk

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