Context for the ELEBCIS Project
Entry Level Employment in Bristol's Creative and Digital Industries Sector (ELEBCIS) focuses specifically on the opportunities for skills training, development and employment that currently exist in the Creative and Digital Sectors in Bristol, the opportunities which are being planned for and will be created in the future if developments currently being championed in the city and wider region through the Local Enterprise Partnership come to fruition over the next 25 years as they are expected to, and seeks to identify, explore and propose solutions to overcome any barriers to access to those opportunities that are currently (and may in the future be) faced by young people in communities in all areas of the city.
As well as recently being voted the UK's 'best place to live/happiest city', the wide-ranging and extensive opportunities being created through developments focussed on the Local Enterprise Zone at Bristol Temple Quarter, propose that the future of the creative and digital sector workforce in Bristol is bright. In addition to the vibrant existing creative, cultural, media, performance, theatre, music and events sectors in Bristol – on which the justification for investment in Bristol as the National Lead for Creative Industries through the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) network was achieved; the demonstrable strengths of these sectors – including the increasingly visible environmental technologies sector in the city are being widely recognised as leading nationally and internationally in creating opportunities for ethical, economic growth as well as social, cultural and material regeneration.
How the city can benefit most effectively from this strength and achievement in ensuring that the potential of all residents – including young people – across the city is a key priority for the LEP, which asserts through it’s core vision planning processes that 'No-one will be left behind.'
In the context of this development in the city, and of these ambitions for the LEP which wholly align with Bristol City Council's own equalities and diversity policies, Bristol City Council commissioned the ELEBCIS report to explore how existing opportunities may be increased, and also to identify ways in which opportunities may be enhanced.
Additionally, ELEBCIS aims to explore whether there are specific or additional barriers to access for disadvantaged young people in the city which may prevent them from accessing, and therefore benefitting from the opportunities being offered through Bristol’s strategic focus on economic growth and the development of employment opportunities in these sectors. For areas of the city where youth unemployment is a particular challenge, this is of specific concern.
As well as recently being voted the UK's 'best place to live/happiest city', the wide-ranging and extensive opportunities being created through developments focussed on the Local Enterprise Zone at Bristol Temple Quarter, propose that the future of the creative and digital sector workforce in Bristol is bright. In addition to the vibrant existing creative, cultural, media, performance, theatre, music and events sectors in Bristol – on which the justification for investment in Bristol as the National Lead for Creative Industries through the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) network was achieved; the demonstrable strengths of these sectors – including the increasingly visible environmental technologies sector in the city are being widely recognised as leading nationally and internationally in creating opportunities for ethical, economic growth as well as social, cultural and material regeneration.
How the city can benefit most effectively from this strength and achievement in ensuring that the potential of all residents – including young people – across the city is a key priority for the LEP, which asserts through it’s core vision planning processes that 'No-one will be left behind.'
In the context of this development in the city, and of these ambitions for the LEP which wholly align with Bristol City Council's own equalities and diversity policies, Bristol City Council commissioned the ELEBCIS report to explore how existing opportunities may be increased, and also to identify ways in which opportunities may be enhanced.
Additionally, ELEBCIS aims to explore whether there are specific or additional barriers to access for disadvantaged young people in the city which may prevent them from accessing, and therefore benefitting from the opportunities being offered through Bristol’s strategic focus on economic growth and the development of employment opportunities in these sectors. For areas of the city where youth unemployment is a particular challenge, this is of specific concern.