Learning and Development Strategy. The Strategy is a separately agreed document that provides the detail around the Council’s strategy for learning and development. This will be in addition to the Council’s recently agreed Learning and Development Policy. The principles are repeated here to re-enforce the links with the overall Human Resource Strategy of which Single Status is such a key part. The target training days for each employee is 3 days per year off the job training. The Learning and Development Strategy will play an essential part in helping to provide the framework to support corporate, service and individual development. It is based on ensuring the Council adheres to the following principles: • a well-trained, flexible committed workforce, with every employee having a right to equal and fair access to appropriate learning and development, provided in line with corporate objectives and within available resources and the constraints of delivering the Service • the need to constantly respond to central government’s requirements of local government, as well as to the needs of our local communities, through continuous improvement • the Learning and Development Strategy and the resulting programmes being driven and informed by the Council’s desire to achieve value for money in everything that it does • working with our partner organisations and the wider community. Encouraging self-development and life long learning through: • Basic/core skills training • Achievement of national standards (where they exist) • Attainment of any NVQ/national/ professional/post graduate/qualification in accordance with a Management Development Framework • Core equalities training • Secondments • Personal development opportunities
