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Tuesday 10 February 2026

9 - 11.30 am (refreshments and networking from 9 am)

ORIDA Hotels Newbury, (M4 Junction 13), RG20 8XY

Hosted by the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Skills Unit to begin shaping the next phase of the Local Skills Improvement Plans (LSIPs) for Berkshire and Oxfordshire.

Focus on strengthening talent pipelines and addressing essential employability skills across key service sectors, including hospitality, care and health, retail, and professional business services. These sectors are vital to the regional economy and continue to experience shared challenges around recruitment, retention, workforce readiness, and progression.

The session will bring together employers, educators, training providers, recruitment specialists, and local partners to explore practical responses to workforce challenges and to identify priority actions that will directly inform the development of the next LSIPs.

Proposed agenda and discussion themes

RSVP – limited spaces available

Please confirm attendance by Friday 23 January 2026, including the attendee’s name, organisation, and job title.

Due to limited capacity, attendance is restricted to one representative per organisation.

Wednesday 18 February 2026

4.30 to 6 pm

Green Templeton College, Woodstock Road, Oxford

(EP Abraham Lecture Theatre and Online)

Speaker:

Professor Jon Glasby, University of Birmingham

Lessons from the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care part of the Care Initiative Series

With the reform of adult social care once again being considered – this time by the Casey Commission – this session builds on lessons from the work of IMPACT, the UK centre for implementing evidence in adult social care. It looks at what we mean by evidence, why lived experience is an important form of evidence in its own right, and how to get evidence of what works implemented in practice. In the process, it draws out key lessons from IMPACT’s work across the four nations of the UK that could form the building blocks of a future National Care Service.