The five enabling sectors are crucial in terms of the wider economy and quality of life in the Black Country.
The effectiveness of the programme to secure growth in the transformational sectors hinges in part on the performance of these sectors.
They are: retail, visitor economy, sports, health and public sector (including education).
There are 248,950 jobs 5 in the enabling sectors.
(Business Register and Employment Survey, 2020)
The ambition is to grow jobs in these sectors to 325,000 jobs by 2030
(Oxford Economics, Black Country Economic Model Vision Scenario)
= INCREASE of 77,000 new jobs in the next 8 years