The Learning Pool Finance document describes an online learning platform developed for employees in the public sector. The platform provides e-learning courses focused on finance training, which is important for budget managers and financial control. The initial courses include a 3-hour course called "A Year in the Life of the Budget Manager" and a 1-hour course called "Local Government Finance Explained". The e-learning courses are designed to be accessed flexibly and provide an engaging learning experience through activities, videos, and interactive exercises. Subscription pricing is based on the number of learners and ranges from £3,000 to £6,000 per year.

1. Learning Pool Finance

2. Learning Pool
• The online learning community
• Exclusively for the public sector
• For employees, councillors, governors,
• Content, tools and platform
• Everything to deliver a real return

3. The need for finance training
• Financial management has always been
important for financial control and value for
money reasons
• The current savings climate in local government
makes finance skills even more important
• Budget managers are key players in the council’s
financial control, but
• Budget managers find finance a challenging topic
– even understanding the jargon is a challenge!

4. Learning Pool Finance
• Developed in partnership with LG
Futures, specialists in local government finance
• Based on existing successful classroom courses
provided by LG Futures for public sector officers
and councillors
• Can be used as part of a blend or standalone

5. Subscription content
Initial content:
1. A Year in the Life of the Budget Manager
(approx 3 hours) – available now
2. Local Government Finance Explained
(approx 1 hour) – available 30 Nov

6. A Year in the Life of the Budget
Manager
• learn about
– the role of the budget manager,
– how budgets are set,
– best practice budget management and
– preparing for year-end
• This course features 5 modules, plus a
separate quiz

7. Local Government Finance Explained
• You will learn
– where a council gets its money from
– how it agrees a budget and
– how it monitors spending
This course features 1 hour of content

8. The e-learning approach
• Concisely written with an emphasis on
activities, questions and feedback, and ‘putting it
into practice’
• Use of videos to support a storytelling approach
• Designed as a series of short topics to facilitate
dip in and dip out approach
• Some longer interactive exercises to challenge
the learner and encourage them to really
engage with the material

9. Why it’s great
• You can train lots of people quickly
• Make your training budgets work harder
• Ensure your learners get the same messages, as
often as they need
• Support new budget holders with immediate
training – no waiting for the next classroom
session
• Can be revisited by learners to top up learning
throughout the year

10. How much does it cost?
Up to 200 people £3,000 (£15 per person)
Up to 400 people £4,000 (£10 per person)
Up to 1,000 people £6,000 (£6 per person)
• Two year subscription – these figures are for 1 year
• Number of people refer to numbers of staff accessing the
content, rather than total number of employees

11. Guest access
• Pop your email address into the comment box
• We’ll send you guest access
• Nominate a colleague too, if needed

12. Questions...