Government Skills
Government Skills is the Sector Skills Council (SSC) for central government, working for employers across the sector. Like other SSCs we are governed by a board with members drawn from across the sector. For organisational purposes we are based within the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS).
Our overall purpose is to improve the delivery of public services by working with employers to reduce skills gaps. We cover all civil servants in departments and agencies (including those in the devolved administrations and the Northern Ireland Civil Service); staff in non-departmental government bodies not already affiliated to another SSC (around 60,000 staff); and the Armed Forces. In total, this adds up to around 800,000 staff.
We will reduce skills gaps by delivering the Skills Strategy for central government.
The strategy – agreed with employers in January 2008 and published in April 2008 – is built around the PSG competency framework, which sets out the skills which people need to get on and move up in the Civil Service.
