The Future of the UK Local Government Workforce

Source: Department for Communities and Local Government, Local Government Finance Statistics England No 17, 2007, http://www.local.communities.gov.uk/finance/stats/lgfs/2007/lgfs17/index.html

Source: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, Recruitment, retention and turnover 2007, June 2007, http://www.cipd.co.uk/subjects/recruitmen/general/_recruitretnt.htm

Source: IDeA-Local Government Analysis and Research, Local government pay and workforce strategy survey 2006 , March 2007, http://www.lgar.local.gov.uk/lgv/core/page.do?pageId=24761

Health and Safety Executive, Managing Sickness Absence in the Public Sector, Health and Safety Executive, London, 2004, www.hse.gov.uk/gse/ sickness .pdf

Source: Office for National Statistics Population Trends 130 , Winter 2007 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_population/Population_Trends_130_web.pdf

Source: Madouros, V. Projections of the UK Labour Force 2006 to 2020, Labour Market Division, ONS 2006 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/downloads/theme_labour/projections_LMTJan06.pdf

Source: Office for National Statistics, Characteristics of public sector workers , Economic & Labour Market Review Vol 1, No 5, May 2007

Sources: Office for National Statistics. Public sector employment trends , National Statistics Online 2005 , http://www.statistics.gov.uk/articles/nojournal/PublicSectorEmploymentTrends2005.pdf Office for National Statistics, Regional Trends 38 , Table 5.4.  Education, social work and health services , The Stationery Office, London 2004 Local Government Analysis and Research, Local government pay and workforce strategy survey, 2006, http://www.lgar.local.gov.uk/lgv/core/page.do?pageId=24761

Source: Economic & Labour Market Review, Characteristics of public sector workers Table 12 p53, Vol 1, 5 2007 http://www.statistics.gov.uk/elmr/05_07/downloads/ELMR_0507Millard_Machin.pdf Table 12 Proportions employed within the public and private sectors: by occupation and sex, 2006: 12.2% of men and 5.8% of women are managers and senior officials.

Source: National Audit Office, Department for Work and Pensions, Increasing employment rates for ethnic minorities, February 2008, http://www.nao.org.uk/publications/nao_reports/07-08/0708206.pdf

Source: Audit Commission analysis of best value performance indicator data (see Audit Commission, Local government workforce: recruiting and retaining staff for the future , London, 2008, Figure 15).

Source: Audit Commission, Best Value Performance Indicator Data, 2005/06.

Source: Joan Munro, national adviser for workforce strategy at the Improvement and Development Agency, quoted at http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news_details.cfm?News_id=32719

Source: Joan Munro, national adviser for workforce strategy at the Improvement and Development Agency, quoted at http://www.publicfinance.co.uk/news_details.cfm?News_id=32719

Source: Office for National Statistics, Characteristics of public sector workers , Economic & Labour Market Review Vol 1 No 5 2007, http://www.statistics.gov.uk/elmr/05_07/downloads/ELMR_0507Millard_Machin.pdf

Source: Audit Commission from RSe commissioned work 2007

Source: Audit Commission from RSe commissioned work 2007

Source: Department of Health, Options for excellence: building the social care workforce of the future, 2006