these strategies establish the general direction that the united kingdom takes in skills development setting targets and introducing new policies and agencies to assist in achieving these targets for instance the leitch review which was tasked by british government to address the uk s longterm skill needs cast a vision for the united kingdom to become a world leader in skills by and established targets to enhance educational attainment the leitch review also recommended the creation of a commission to coordinate skill needs assessment work and skill policy more generally leading to the introduction of the uk commission of employment and skills ukces which replaced the former sector skills development agency ssda and the national employment panel oecd