IIOC HR and Workforce Group

The human resources and workforce strategy group has been established to develop and progress both the human resource and workforce development Strategies.  This remit of the group includes taking a longer term view of workforce requirements and ensure that the recruitment, retention, deployment and skills development of staff meet the business objectives of the Department.

The group is responsible for implementing the Children's Workforce Strategy for the local authority workforce and the implementation plan.

The remit includes:

• Responsibility for implementing an annual work plan and monitoring and evaluating its implementation

• Identifying across services the operational resources (budgets, staff, physical assets) that are relevant to the priorities and relevant to the workforce strategy

• Agreeing and overseeing the alignment of services and the pooling of resources where this will help improve outcomes, developing any new arrangements for pooling budgets and any financial arrangements relevant to the workforce strategy

• Within the organisation/service(s) that they represent, securing the necessary agreement to commit the operational resources that have been identified for example if a particular training is recommended for specific roles, the workforce lead will be responsible for

a. Ensuring this happens in the

    timescales agreed

b. Evidencing it has happened,

    outcomes, and cost implications

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