The Mayor Richard Parker has laid out an ambitious vision to transform the region, focusing on four key priorities that will make a real difference in people’s lives. He wants to focus on:
- Jobs for Everyone – Investing in skills, training, and apprenticeships, reducing youth unemployment, and ensuring everyone has a job that pays well.
- Homes for Everyone – Building social and affordable homes, creating vibrant communities, so that everyone has a place to call home.
- Growth for Everyone – Helping businesses thrive, fostering innovation and creativity, ensuring the benefits reach everyone while protecting the environment.
- Journeys for Everyone – Connecting communities with safer, easier, and more affordable travel.
The Taskforces
To help deliver on these priorities, we’re forming four dedicated taskforces of experts across a range of sectors - our very own council of experts.
They will provide insights, challenge ideas, and help deliver for everyone in the West Midlands.
- Advise the Mayor and WMCA board, shaping strategies to drive progress in your specialist area.
- Bring fresh perspectives to policy development and help push forward the key priorities that will improve people’s lives.
- Lead short-term projects to accelerate action and ensure delivery in each priority area.
- Collaborate with experts from across the region to support wider engagement and help promote our ambitious agenda.
We want people to join our taskforces from areas and sectors across the whole region.
- Academia
- Thinktanks and Research
- Transport and Logistics
- Employment and skills bodies
- Higher education and training providers
- Employer groups, Trade Unions
- Community organisations
- Creative industries
- Health sector organisations
- The voluntary and community sector
It can also include those with lived experience of poverty and/or disability, BIPOC, and/or those under 30 – who have an interest in the success of the West Midlands.
Applications are now closed.
We will keep you posted with more information on the taskforces over the coming weeks.