2025-2030 Strategic Plan

The Commission's purpose

The Commission plays an integral role in engaging with industry, the community, and government to support employment growth and economic outcomes for South Australia.

Our core purpose is threefold:

  • Skills-based careers

    Skills-based careers

    To facilitate a significant shift in the quality, appeal, and adoption of skills-based careers, supporting how South Australians learn, work, and live.

  • Robust advice

    Robust advice

    To provide advice underpinned by a deep understanding of South Australian industries and sectors, focusing on change and adaptation through our Industry Skills Councils.

  • Support for learners

    Support for learners

    To ensure training providers and employers are meeting their obligations to support learners, enabling them to enter the workforce with the skills and capabilities required by industry.

Skills-based careers

Skills-based careers

To facilitate a significant shift in the quality, appeal, and adoption of skills-based careers, supporting how South Australians learn, work, and live.

Robust advice

Robust advice

To provide advice underpinned by a deep understanding of South Australian industries and sectors, focusing on change and adaptation through our Industry Skills Councils.

Support for learners

Support for learners

To ensure training providers and employers are meeting their obligations to support learners, enabling them to enter the workforce with the skills and capabilities required by industry.

Who we engage with

We engage with learning and training communities across:

  • VET, Higher Education and Adult Community Education (ACE)
  • the apprenticeship and traineeship system
  • policy makers, industry and sector leaders
  • training providers, employers, unions, and peak bodies
  • learners, parents, and community groups
  • all levels of government.

We also engage with Skills SA; this Strategic Plan has been considered in line with South Australia’s new skills policy – Skilled. Thriving. Connected.

Together we enable the conditions for skills-based careers to flourish in different cultural and community contexts – from the city centre and metropolitan areas to our rural, regional and remote areas of South Australia.