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What can my department do?

If you work in learning and development (L&D), think about the following questions.

Common procurement

What are your department's existing L&D services like?

• What do you already share with others?
• What could you share with others in the future?
• How would you do this?
• Do you use any L&D services provided by other government departments?
• Is there anything you could use in the future like this?

Are your current contracts running out soon or do you have specific L&D needs?

• Could you procure this from another government department?
• Does your department have policies on common procurement?
• Do you look to share other government departments’ L&D contracts before letting your own new ones?
• Do you seek other government partners?
• If not, why not?

Common commissioning

Government Skills has now completed work to collect information on departments' contracts and the next phase of the project is running the rolling programme of Training Needs Analyses (TNA). There are currently two TNA pilots running in:

• the provision of the Master of Business Administration (MBA) and the Master of Public Administration (MPA)
• policy profession skills
• personal assistant apprenticeships

Government Skills will be running a rolling programme of TNA and we are currently scoping a number of additional skills areas. We would like to hear from departments and professions who have suggestions for a TNA.

Actions for departments and the professions

Being involved would mean taking part in a TNA and then using the results to work with other government departments to commonly commission new L&D services. Government Skills would like to hear from departments and professions around the following themes:

• What skills areas could you get involved in?
• Are there any skills areas you think would benefit from a TNA?
• Do you have any good practice in the area of common action you could share?
• Do you have any lessons learnt from previous experiences of common action you could share?

If you have any feedback, contact Kirsten Rogers

Common actions online

If you are an HR practitioner, stay up to date with common actions progress and network with other departments through our new social media tool, which has a dedicated workspace just for common actions.

This is a password-protected tool, so to get access, contact Government Skills

Log on to Government Skills Huddle

Project information

Contact Kirsten Rogers – 020 7215 1431