Since 2013 the Scottish Leaders Forum has sponsored an initiative called ‘Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens’. This started with a question: ‘what is an assets approach to workforce development?’. Over the next two years, a growing reference group visited pioneering people and…
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Reconnecting with East Ayrshire Vibrant Communities team…
This blog post is a copy of one posted to the new Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens blog at https://transformingpublicservice.wordpress.com --- Back in Spring 2013, two people told me, independently, that I 'had to go and talk to Katie Kelly at East…
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Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens – Recovery Event March 2015
On 30th March, participants from Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens pioneer sites collaborated in hosting an event that asked ‘how might our public services be in recovery?’. A really diverse group of over 100 people came and experienced something of what…
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Workforce Scotland – Spring Events
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Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens: July Update
Can you help design/host events leading up to and including a big SWSC ‘Ceilidh’ in Glasgow in February 2015? SWSC has established a pattern of regular Reference Group meetings. During our first year, these have been hosted by individual pioneer…
May Newsletter
Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens: November 2013 update
This blog is one of a regular series highlighting key events and developments with the Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens initiative. Please don’t hold back in offering suggestions, feedback or other comments… --- Whilst the focus of October was reaching out…
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Community Assets Approaches to Workforce Development
Part of the work of the Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens initiative is sparking interest at events in our questions about how organisations can take a community assets approach to workforce development. Here's a story of a workshop we ran at…
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Introducing the Skilled Workers, Skilled Citizens initiative… and an invitation to get involved
The Reference Group for this initiative have asked me to write this blog as a way to capture a story of our work together. The idea is that different voices can add/amend/comment. And we can embed some of the media…