Creating inclusive, innovative and sustainable growth, learning and opportunity

If we want to achieve the five key outcomes that we have identified, a thriving and, prosperous economy is our city’s engine for change and critical to turning the outcomes curve in a positive direction will be essential.

We will create more and better jobs that are sustainable – jobs that, provide a career path and are financially rewarding.

We want to encourage more new businesses to start up and we want to make it easier for existing businesses to grow.

We have identified three priorities under this theme:

1. Educational inequalities
2. Jobs and skills
3. Sustainable and inclusive economic growth

We have created detailed action plans for each of these priorities, which can be viewed by clicking on the 'action plans' links on this page.

Measures of success

The things we want to achieve by 2028 include:

• increasing the percentage of school leavers progressing into positive destinations (such as employment or further and higher education) from a baseline of 95% in 2021-22.
• reducing the gap between those entitled to free school meals and those who aren’t from a baseline of 35% in 2018-19.
• reducing the working-age economic inactivity rate (excluding students) within the city from 23% to 18%.
• increasing the employment rate for people living with a disability from 37% to 42%.
• increasing the number of new business start-ups from 1,435 per year to 1,800.
• reducing the number of jobs paid below the real living wage from 14.7% to 10% or less.

Use the "Stay Informed" link to be kept up to date with engagements and updates relating to this theme.