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One of the biggest failures of current workforce planning processes is the inherent obsession with the current workforce, with little link to or involvement of the future professional workforce.
It is important that the current workforce is able to influence the content of education – both at school and university level – and better links are needed between employers, educationalists and students.
We also have to be mindful that a growing number of those undertaking qualifications will be older, entering their second career. These people will arguably have different learning styles, motivations and requirements.
It is certainly true that preparing the upcoming professional workforce is the key link between near-term operational workforce planning and long-term strategic workforce planning. One Partnership area has started to recognise the importance of blurring the edges between these two areas and pursuing ‘pre-recruitment’ schemes to attract social workers in their fourth year and during their Masters courses. Approaches like this can help align students with business areas and invests in them for the future.
Important work on this is currently being done in Scotland through the National Review of Social Work Education.
The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) is Scotland’s national qualifications framework. The SCQF supports lifelong learning and can help:
Planning for the future by the Scottish Social Services Council is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Based on a work at http://learn.sssc.uk.com.