National Skills Framework for the Voluntary Sector
Skills – Third Sector is the strategic body for developing skills in charities, social enterprises and voluntary organisations. They have recognised the importance for charities and social enterprises to have the right skills to make a difference to people in their communities.
Julie Wilkes - Skills Third Sector CEO says:
We want proper recognition of the sector‟s skills and talents, because skills matter to the sector‟s ability to meet the challenges in the period ahead. We are proposing a „virtual academy model‟ as a delivery framework to help organisations and learners get the most out of ever scarcer resources for development.
We are emerging from a period of significant investment in the sector‟s capacity through publicly funded programmes into a period of austerity. We need to build on the legacy of these programmes and understand what we have learned. As public spending gets tighter, we need to show how the investment organisations make now in the skills of their staff, volunteers and trustees is key to their future sustainability. Above all we want to make sure that scarce resources are shared openly, properly targeted, and linked to quality standards to maximise their effectiveness
Read the National Skills Framework for the Voluntary Sector here
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