JGP News
A snapshot of some of our most recent work and an insight into some of our ideas on the hot topics and issues that affect the public and not for profit sectors, and how we are responding to them.
Categories
Archives
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- October 2006
- September 2006
- June 2006
RSS Feed
Government ensures 475,000 civil servants are trained up
Central government leaders have made a new commitment to ensure that over 475,000 civil servants are in possession of basic skills and a level two qualification.
A total of 19 government departments have pledged to help eligible public sector workers achieve the goal.
Permanent secretaries from 14 of the departments joined civil service chief Sir Gus O’Donnell yesterday to sign up to the commitment at an official ceremony organised by Government Skills, the central government’s own sector skills council.
Commenting on the launch, Government Skills chairman Sir Richard Mottram said the commitment showed the determination of the civil service to respond to the "skills challenge" highlighted by the recent Leitch report.
Published in December of last year, the Treasury-commissioned Leitch review warned that unless Britain took "urgent" action to boost the skills of its workers, the country’s skills base would be inferior to that of many other developed nations by 2010.
"There remains much work for us all to do in developing our action plans to implement the pledge, but today’s event provides a useful opportunity for us not only to set an example to other employers, but also to demonstrate clearly to our own staff the importance we attach to skills development now and in the future," added Sir Richard.
