Cross Cutting Review of the Public Sector Labour Market
Terms of reference
Achieving the Government’s commitment on improved customer-focused public services will be dependent on ensuring that public sector employers can recruit, retain and motivate suitably qualified staff to deliver those services. In the 2000 Spending Review, significant new resources were allocated to the recruitment, retention and training of key public sector workers, in particular those in the NHS, education, and the criminal justice system. The further expansion of public services, set out in the 2002 Spending Review, will require a significant increase in the workforce over the next few years, particularly in areas such as childcare, health care, education and the Criminal Justice System.
A cross-cutting review of the public sector labour market has been carried out, which explored a number of issues around the productivity of the sector, and the need to attract workers in an increasingly tight labour market. Specifically, the review assessed the current composition of the public sector, how best to expand recruitment and retention, enhance work flexibility and career opportunities in the public sector, as well as to create an efficient workforce.
Nick Brown (Minister for Work) was the ministerial lead for the Review. He was supported by a team of officials from HM Treasury and the Department for Work and Pensions, led by Joe Grice from HM Treasury.
Further information can be obtained from:
- Andy Graham HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ, telephone 020 7270 4559, email: andy.graham@hm-treasury.gov.uk, or
- Fiona Ross, HM Treasury, 1 Horse Guards Road, London SW1A 2HQ, telephone 020 7270 5322, email: fiona.ross@hm-treasury.gov.uk.
The review will:
- Assess these trends in the context of developments in national and regional labou Identify the main trends affecting the size and composition of the public sector workforce over the period 2002 to 2007, and the skills required for the successful delivery of public services, in particular in relation to the NHS, education, the criminal justice system, defence and social services; r markets, including the role for greater use of geographically differentiated pay;
- Analyse departments’ recruitment and retention strategies for these and other key groups, and assess their likely impact; and
- Identify issues common to more than one public sector group and areas for coordinated action.
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