Improving green space skills

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Explaining why better skills are so vital to the green space sector, with tips on what can do to improve them.

The green space sector is suffering from an acute lack of skills, with a shortage of professionals such as landscape architects and green space managers and inadequate training and career development opportunities. This is leading to poor quality green spaces and an under-valued workforce on poor pay.

There is a much greater understanding of the many benefits that good green spaces can bring to society, but without investing in the workforce these will not be realised.

This briefing explains why better skills are so vital to the sector now, and gives useful tips on what green space organisations can do to improve them.

Published on 5 February 2009