To promote business growth and employment, including helping Southwark residents into 5,000 jobs and 2,000 apprenticeships. Develop and deliver a new Southwark Business Forum and working with the cabinet member for regeneration and new homes to ensure that Southwark’s employers and job-seekers get a good deal out of development.
To promote and develop arts and culture in the borough, including museums and heritage. To promote our libraries and encourage more people to use them.
The cabinet member will lead the council’s work on improving our high streets, business space and new shops. To work with the Cabinet Member for Business Culture and Social Regeneration, and the Cabinet Member for Public Health and Social Regeneration to ensure that our regeneration delivers not just new homes for local people, but social change and improvement for Southwark residents.
The cabinet member will have particular responsibility for:
· economic development and employment;
· business improvement districts;
· the council’s relationship with Jobcentre Plus;
· employment and enterprise support;
· better business space;
· Fairtrade;
· promoting fair pay and the London Living Wage;
· business engagement;
· Southwark Business Forum
· adult learning, post-18 further education and training;
· libraries;
· events;
· civic issues;
· working with organisations in the borough’s thriving culture communities;
· increasing access to arts and culture including for vulnerable groups;
· 18 year old employment, education and training guarantee with the cabinet member for children and schools;
· Southwark Arts Scholars.
The cabinet member will work with the deputy cabinet member for cultural strategy.