Five years on from the Egan Review, this free conference will explore what’s expected of practitioners and employers within the sustainable communities sector and consider the types of skills required to address current challenges.

Strong skills and the transfer of knowledge between professionals are central to meeting the needs of local communities and we're leading the way by developing the Delivering Better Skills for Better Places action plan to co-ordinate the sectors efforts to tackle skills shortages.

This interactive conference will focus on the ways higher education can provide practitioners and employers with skills and workplace competencies.

If you are a housing, regeneration, planning, landscape or urban design professional this conference will provide you with the chance to discuss the opportunities and challenges of employer engagement in professional learning and development.

You’ll also hear the latest news from the Academy; share good practice and hear about how the Foundation Degree in Sustainable Communities has progressed

Key speakers include:

• Sir Bob Kerslake (Chief Executive of the Homes and Communities Agency)
• Professor Sylvia Johnson (Dean, Sheffield Hallam University)
• Mervyn Jones (Chief Executive, Yorkshire Housing)
• Peter Hetherington (HCA Academy)
• Nicole Collomb (Head of Public Space Management & Best Practice, CABE)

Key issues addressed by the speakers and in the workshops are:

• developing more strategic and collaborative approaches to skills development across the sustainable communities professions and education
• reviewing the evidence about the impact of higher education and professional development on sustainable communities practice
• exploring how moves to advance skills development have been achieved by integrating workplace learning with education through initiatives such as the Foundation Degree in Sustainable Communities
• considering how the involvement of employers and universities can assist in planning for
• improvements through work with schools, internships and placements
• identifying new opportunities to extend provision in further and higher education to deliver the core sustainable communities skills influencing local neighbourhoods
• exploring how funding and resources can be better targeted

Audience

This event is relevant to anyone who has an interest and involvement in delivering services to:
neighbourhoods in the public, private and third sectors and education providers including regeneration agencies, housing, planning, landscape and urban design, health and social care sectors
further and higher education institutions and learning and skills agencies

Venue

Sheffield Hallam University, City Campus, Owen building, Peak Lecture Theatre, Unit 1 Science Park, Sheffield S1 1WB

Cost

Free Event - Booking is essential as places are limited. Please download booking form on the right.

For further information please contact Kim Haigh on 0114 225 4653 or email k.haigh@shu.ac.uk