PPMA Conference 2010 – The Global Skills Race
Dear Colleagues,
I'm delighted that we witnessed such a positive response to the PPMA London 2010 conference from delegates, sponsors, exhibitors, commercial partners and other stakeholders.
As the UK public sector is poised to face an unprecedented period of austerity and retrenchment I hope that conference delegates have taken away the message that whilst cuts and efficiency measures are undoubtedly necessary, in order to transform our service and employment landscape we must address our workforce skills deficit. The cumulative impact PPMA members can effect across public sector services in this regard should not be under-estimated.
To paraphrase the words of our conference final keynote speaker, Richard Gerver, now is the time to take risk, innovate, and create new workforce skills.
Change is upon us - we must embrace that change for the betterment of public sector services and the nation as a whole.
Dean Shoesmith
PPMA President
