Workforce Development

2009 National Local Government Skills Forum

Local Government Managers Australia (LGMA) hosted a national local government skills forum on 19-20 February 2009 in Melbourne to develop an action plan for a new way forward for the local government sector to meet its skills needs over the next five to ten years. The forum follows the 2006 National Skills Shortage Forum and the subsequent development of a National Skills Shortage Strategy for Local Government which was launched in 2007.

 Forum Objectives

• To review the 2007 National Skills Shortage Strategy for Local Government;
• To evaluate the federal government’s new skills’ initiatives;
• To assess the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector’s skills supply; and
• To determine the sector’s responses to its future skills needs.

A New Way Forward
An outcomes document is being prepared by LGMA on behalf of the sector for consideration by the National Local Government Workforce Development Steering Committee. The forum outcomes document will form the basis of an action plan for a new way forward for the sector to meet its future skills needs.

Program and Presentations
View and download presentations from the forum.

Acknowledgements
View acknowledgements.

Media releases
National skills forum to address impact of global economic crisis (16 January 2009)
Long-term reform critical to local government skills needs (3 March 2009)