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First Retail Skills Summit Highlights The Importance Of The Sector's Three Million Workers To Local Communities And The Economic Recovery

Today, some of the nation's biggest retailers come together in the first Retail Skills Summit to call for more support and recognition of the UK's Retail sector in helping to bring the UK economy out of recession.

Retail leaders including Ian Cheshire and Theo Paphitis gather at its Improving Business Performance Through Skills event to discuss how investing in programmes such as Apprenticeships and Foundation Degrees can help to raise the skills of their workforce. The event comes in the wake of a Government paper which names retail as a key industry in helping to limit unemployment and help the country out of the recession.

Anne Seaman, CEO of the Sector Skills Council asks retailers and the government to do more and embark on a course of Retail Activism to highlight the importance of the three million people working in retail to local communities and the economic recovery. She is also calling for recognition that retail can help a wide range of people into sustainable employment, thus acting as 'incubator' for jobs to support economic recovery.

The conference has been organised jointly by Skillsmart Retail, The Learning and Skills Council's National Employer Service and Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency. Distributed by Tubemogul.