Government Services: Sector Skills Assessment 2012
The Sector Skills Assessment for Government Services presents evidence on the sector’s skill needs and priorities. This report was produced by Skills for Justice.
Government Services: Sector Skills Assessment 2012 (PDF, 804 Kb)
Published November 2012
This is the Sector Skills Assessment (SSA) for Government Services. The aim of the report is to provide authoritative labour market intelligence (LMI) for the sector in order to inform the development of skills policy across the UK.
The Government Services sector is an important part of the UK economy. It employs more than two million people, making it the fifth largest out of 15 SSA sectors in employment terms.
The sector faces a number of key challenges, including the impact of ongoing public service reform together with rising demand for services in the context of constrained resources.
Priorities for action on skills relate to effective performance, flexible working, procurement and commissioning, adoption of information technologies, workplace learning and collaboration across traditional workplace boundaries.
SSAs combine top-down data from official sources with bottom-up sectoral intelligence to provide a consistent, comparable and rich understanding of the skills priorities within sectors across the four UK nations. The reports have been produced to a common specification (developed by the UK Commission in consultation with the four UK governments) and follow a consistent structure.
