East Lothian Council Workforce Plan

Overview

The Council is developing a new Workforce Plan, with the aim of ensuring that it can maintain a skilled, flexible, high performing, motivated and well managed workforce.

As the Council continues to face challenges from our ever growing population, constrained budgets and pressures to reform it is even more important to ensure we have the right people, with the right knowledge, skills and behaviours in the right jobs.

A draft Workforce Plan has been prepared outlining:

• Where we are now – the Council’s workforce profile
• What is driving change – analysis of future workforce needs
• Where we want to get to – analysis of the gaps
• How we are going to get there – the actions

The draft Workforce Plan has been issued to the Council Trade Unions for formal consultation.

It is also now available for comment from staff on the Council’s Consultation Hub along with a summary and a sort questionnaire.

The Workforce Plan will set the Council’s priorities for HR policies and staff training and development agenda for the next four years.  This consultation on the draft plan is your opportunity to contribute you views on thse priorities so do visit the Consultation Hub to read the plan (or its summary) and complete the short questionnaire.