Spotlight on London's Third Sector
A follow up survey from the Workforce Hub in partnership with the National Council for Voluntary Organisations is due to be published in April 2008. It builds on the Voluntary Sector Skills Survey 2007, and looks at skills gaps for the third sector in the UK and how training and development strategies may mitigate them.
Skills for Health is taking action on this by working with voluntary organisations and other partners in the London Teaching Public Health Network (LTPHN), which is focussing on what information third sector employers need, sources of funding and training courses needed to support the sector’s workforce development.
Lorraine Williams from the LTPHN Third Sector project explains ‘We are leading on developing capacity and capability for public health and wellbeing in the third sector in London. Our aim is to see how we can enable employers to better plan to deliver better health, and the training and development in public health to support this, especially with the approach of the London Olympics and Paralympics in 2012.’
The network, one of nine regional groups formed by the DH 18 months ago, includes academics from FE and HE and third sector organisations in London and other partners that have a workforce development agenda. Early work includes a web based self assessment tool and a skills audit of Public Health front line workers. Information from focus groups and other initiatives being organised by the network will be a significant contribution to our understanding of Public Health skills in this sector in London.
The LTPHN contact on third sector is Lorraine Williams
lorraine.williams@lshtm.ac.uk . For more information on the NCVO report see
www.ukworkforcehub.org.uk
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