Free Breakfast Seminar with Mayor Steve Rotheram and Sir Paul Grant
Tuesday 4th February 2025
In partnership with Hays Education, we are delighted to be hosting a free breakfast seminar entitled ‘Liverpool City Region Long-Term Skills Plan’ with Mayor Steve Rotheram and Sir Paul Grant
Join Mayor Steve Rotheram and his Education Adviser, Sir Paul Grant, for a thought-provoking conversation about the skills required to build a healthy and prosperous future for the Liverpool City Region. Discover the long-term strategies designed to address these needs and how they will benefit education, young people, and local communities.
- The key sectors driving the region’s growth
- Strategic areas of investment shaping the future
- Current and future opportunities for Liverpool’s young people
- The impact on curriculum development, careers education (CEIAG), and partnerships with businesses and industries across all key stages.
Seminar Format
- 8:00 AM – Welcome & Networking
- 8:30 AM – An introduction to the LCRCA Long-Term Skills Plan from The Policy team at LCRCA
- 8:40 AM – Mayor Rotheram & Sir Paul Grant in Conversation
- 9:20 AM – Audience Q&A and Contributions
- 10:00 AM – Closing Remarks by Hays and FED
- 10:10 AM – Networking & Close
This is a unique opportunity to engage with regional leaders and gain valuable insights into shaping education and skills for a prosperous Liverpool City Region.
Location: Hays Specialist Recruitment 2nd Floor, Part 5, St Paul’s Square, Liverpool L3 9SJ
Date: Tuesday 4th February 8:30 – 10:30 (breakfast from 8:00am)
Reserve a place by emailing Vicki Gartner at [email protected].
Mayor Rotheram
Raised in Kirkby in a family of eight children, Steve left school at 16 to pursue a career as a bricklayer, starting out as an apprentice. In later years he went on to work for the Learning and Skills Council.
Steve began his political career when he was elected to serve as a councillor in 2002, representing Fazakerley ward on Liverpool City Council and held the ceremonial title of Lord Mayor of Liverpool through the city’s European Capital of Culture year in 2008.
In 2010, Steve was elected as the Member of Parliament for the Liverpool Walton constituency. While in Westminster, he led campaigns for justice for the Hillsborough families; in support of blacklisted workers; for compensation for those suffering from mesothelioma and asbestosis; and to change the law on the use of old tyres on buses and coaches.
In 2017, Steve was elected as the first ever Liverpool City Region Mayor, representing 1.6m people across the boroughs of Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, Sefton, St Helens and the Wirral and was subsequently re-elected in 2021.
Since taking office, Steve has created 60,000 jobs, 30,000 apprenticeships and 30,000 homes. He has taken the historic decision to take back control of the region’s buses, launched a new £500m fleet of publicly owned fleet of trains, and led the region’s economic recovery from the pandemic with a £150m COVID Recovery Fund.
In 2024, Steve was elected for a third term as Mayor with 68% of the vote, his highest personal mandate and more than any other elected Mayor in the country. During his third term, Steve has pledged to return to council housebuilding at scale, to increase foreign direct investment (FDI) into the region, to build three new train stations and to launch a free pilot of artificial intelligence (AI) in local schools. He has also revised the region’s net zero target to 2035 – the most ambitious target for a city region in the country.
Sir Paul Grant
Sir Paul Grant is the most senior education advisor to the Liverpool City Region Mayor. He is a native of Liverpool from a very large working class family. He was the Headteacher of Robert Clack School for over twenty years and the school was featured in’ twelve outstanding schools succeeding against the odds’ published by Ofsted during his tenure. More recently the school was highlighted for best practice in a DFE report (Creating a culture: how school leaders can optimise behaviour) on how outstanding behaviour is created and embedded in UK Schools. His ongoing legacy is that Robert Clack continues to thrive as a community school and is the biggest secondary school in the UK. His transformative work at this school and with the community led to him being bestowed with the Freedom of Barking and Dagenham.
Paul has served as a National Leader in Education and was a member of Business in the Community’s Education Board for over ten years. He has been actively involved in school and system Improvement having been involved with the London Challenge from the outset. Paul was knighted for services to local and national education and appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for Greater London. He has had roles as an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Education at the University of Hull, and Visiting Professor of the Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education at Anglia Ruskin University. He is currently visiting Professor at Coventry University for Global Learning and Education.
Paul has been a National Education Advisor for the Premier League for over ten years and he has also been a coach, leadership and executive mentoring consultant at the PL since that time.
