National Planning Forum16 June 2008

Ed Watson

PAS support for skills development

‘Skills are the ability to apply knowledge and use know-how to complete tasks and solve problems’• skills across the local government sector

• Members, planning people and senior managers

• increasingly with partners

•.

introduction

what this means in practice

• whole service approach

• support for change

• process, system and structural

• support for doing the job

Skills for planning people

• based on what is known to work

• supporting and driving innovation

• sector led

• the role of review by peers

• appropriate

PAS approach to skills development

• outcomes:

• whole service improvement

• better outcomes

• the whole PAS programme

• the increasing breadth of our audience

what this means in practice

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