Councils risk skills shortages due to poor workforce planning Councils could face a skills shortage in vital areas such as adult care, environmental health and planning unless more council chiefs take a long-term view of workforce planning, said a report.
Training budgets: how to get the best from your budgets The economic slowdown means training and L&D budgets are under pressure. Richard Chappell argues that L&D managers must therefore prove the training they organise really does deliver.
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Sector skills councils: Can do better Sector skills councils are tasked with improving the nation's skills base. Yet, many of them struggle to make the grade themselves. Even Lord Leitch has said a third of them are poor.