Editing Learning and Skills Council (section)

==Organisation==
===National office===
The LSC had a national office in Cheylesmore House, [[Cheylesmore]], [[Coventry]], nine regional offices and 47 local Learning and Skills Council offices.  The LSC's national office was not a typical headquarters – its main role was to produce guidelines and targets for its 47 local offices.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

It was announced in 2005 that the LSC's organisation structure would change as part of the [[Agenda for Change]] programme, creating a streamlined configuration with more focus on the regional dimension. Although management and administration has been restructured on regional lines, the 47 local Learning and Skills councils were retained.

===Redundancies===
Around 1,300 jobs were lost, 500 from the Coventry headquarters, the remainder from local offices. The restructuring process was challenged by the [[Public and Commercial Services Union|PCS Union]], with a strike that took place on 28 April 2006, and a work-to-rule commencing in May 2006.  The work-to-rule ceased on 26 June 2006 after PCS and LSC representatives reached agreement.{{Citation needed|date=April 2015}}

===Staff===

During its lifetime the LSC had three chief executives: John Harwood, Mark Haysom and Geoff Russell.

===Regions===
There were nine regions.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lsc.gov.uk/Regions/ |title=Regions |website=www.lsc.gov.uk |access-date=12 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091003150612/http://www.lsc.gov.uk/Regions/ |archive-date=3 October 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
* East of England - [[Ipswich]]
* East Midlands - Meridian Business Park ([[M1 motorway|M1]]/[[M69 motorway|M69]] junction), Leicester
* London - five offices in Stratford (East), Hounslow (West), [[Croydon]] (South), [[Palmers Green]] (North), and [[Centre Point]] on [[Oxford Street|New Oxford Street]] (Central)
* North East - [[Team Valley]], [[Gateshead]]
* North West - [[Arndale Centre]], [[Manchester]]
* South East - Brighton and Reading
* South West - Bristol
* West Midlands - Birmingham
* Yorkshire and the Humber - Bradford