The National Employers Skills Survey 2007 (NESS07) provides detailed information on the incidence, extent and nature of skills problems facing employers, in terms of both recruitment and skill gaps within their existing workforce. It also explores employers' activities and expenditure in relation to training.

Skills in England 2007 provides an up-to-date assessment of the skills arena and highlights the key skills issues facing the Learning and Skills Council and its partners following a comprehensive review of development and evidence over the past year. The report complements the key government publications in the skills arena, including the Leitch Review of Skills and the Freud Report.

This report presents the latest evidence on work skills in Britain drawn from data collected for the 2006 Skills Survey. The source of the data presented is a high quality representative survey of working individuals living in Britain aged 20-65. Its aim was to gather information on the skills used at work via survey questions directed at workers themselves.

Independent review of the UK's long term skills needs.

A wide-ranging programme of skills research covering all five Learning and Skills Council areas in the East Midlands plus a series of detailed reports that focus on the present and future skill needs of different sectors of the economy.