title: Skills for Business
text: # Skills for Business
  
  The Skills for Business network is an umbrella organisation for the twenty-five Sector Skills Councils in the United Kingdom.
  
  ## History
  
  The whole set of SSCs are funded by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
  
  ## Sector Skills Councils
  
  * Skills CFA - business skills
  * People 1st - hospitality, leisure, travel and tourism www.people1st.co.uk
  * Skills for Care and Development
  * Skillsmart Retail
  * Skillset - creative industry
  * GoSkills
  * Construction Skills
  * The Institute of the Motor Industry (formerly Automotive Skills)
  * SEMTA
  * Financial Services Skills Council
  * Creative & Cultural Skills - advertising
  * Skills for Justice
  * Cogent - chemicals and pharmaceuticals
  * Skills for Health
  * Lifelong Learning UK
  * e-skills UK - IT industry
  * Skillfast-UK - fashion - closed 31 March 2010 and merged with Skillset
  * Energy and Utility Skills
  * Lantra - environment and rural
  * Improve Ltd - food and drink manufacturing
  * SkillsActive - sport
  * Proskills UK
  * SummitSkills - building services engineering (air conditioning and refrigeration, electrotechnical, heating and ventilating, and plumbing) www.summitskills.org.uk
  * Asset Skills - property management
  * Skills for Logistics
  * Government Skills - central government
  