The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal – Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme

Overview

The Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal – Integrated Regional Employability and Skills (IRES) Programme is now co-producing a proposal for the next phase of delivery. Current funding runs until March 2027, and this new proposal will outline plans to continue and enhance the programme from April 2027 onwards. As part of this process, we have launched a citizen consultation to help shape how the next phase of the programme should look. We’re keen to hear from residents across the region about their experiences, aspirations, and ideas to ensure that future skills and employability initiatives truly reflect the needs and voices of the people they are designed to support.

Closed 2 Nov 2025

Opened 22 Oct 2025

Areas

  • All Areas

Audiences

  • Anyone from any background

Interests

  • Active travel
  • Adult learning
  • Adult protection
  • Affordable housing
  • Antisocial behaviour
  • Benefits & grants
  • Bereavement
  • Budgets and finances
  • Building standards
  • Business advice
  • Care home
  • Child protection
  • Child wellbeing
  • City Deal
  • Climate change
  • Commercial waste
  • Community health
  • Community organisation support
  • Community safety
  • Cost of living
  • Council housing
  • Council tax
  • Countryside & green spaces
  • Criminal justice
  • Culture
  • Customer service
  • Dog fouling & littering
  • Early years
  • Economic development
  • Elections
  • Emergency resilience
  • Employability
  • Energy
  • Environmental health
  • Equality
  • Event management
  • Flooding
  • Fly tipping & littering
  • Food & healthy eating
  • Footpaths & cycle paths
  • Foster and adoption
  • Funding opportunities
  • Governance
  • Gypsy travellers
  • Halls & centres
  • Home care
  • Homelessness
  • Household waste
  • Licensing
  • Local community planning
  • Looked after children
  • Mental wellbeing
  • Parking
  • Parks (leisure)
  • Partnership
  • Passenger transport
  • Personal safety
  • Pest control
  • Physical activity
  • Place planning
  • Planning process
  • Potholes
  • Private housing
  • Provost/civic
  • Public spaces
  • Recycling
  • Refugees
  • Registration services
  • Roads
  • Roadworks
  • School curriculum
  • School estate
  • School meals
  • School services
  • School transport
  • Severe weather
  • Sport and activities
  • Sports development
  • Street lighting
  • Substance misuse
  • Sustainability
  • Tourism
  • Town centres
  • Trading Standards
  • Working for the council
  • Youth work