Issue details

In approving the £9.4m Regional Recovery Fund on 9 October 2020, the WECA Committee agreed officer delegations to ensure that decisions on business cases / detailed specific proposals for the agreed schemes can be progressed at pace.

One of the proposals was the Talent Retention Scheme:
The Talent Retention Platform project will design and deliver an interactive web-based, business to business platform, that will provide employers in the West of England with a facility to advertise employment opportunities to those businesses facing the prospect of making their staff redundant. Ultimately this tool is intended to be used as one of the support functions of the Response to Redundancy Group and its partners.

The project proposal was developed in consultation with the Response to Redundancy Group,
West of England Unitary Authority Economic Development & Skills Managers, the Skills
Officer Group and with support from UA Business and Skills Directors.

The Chief Executives of the 4 West of England unitary authorities were consulted on this proposal and signed-off the Feasibility and Development Funding application form for the project.