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Old 24th July 2007, 08:49 AM
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Default Budget cuts force civil servants to reskill

A huge training project is necessary to prepare central government line managers to do their jobs with a reduced budget, according to an insider. Jonathan Baume, general secretary of the FDA union, which represents senior civil servants, conceded that their jobs were changing dramatically. He said that budget cutbacks meant HR faced a massive challenge readying managers to deal with lower spending capacities. "We are now moving into a period of no growth in public expenditure, which will have a big impact on government departments," he told Personnel Today. "Senior civil servants used to managing teams with growing budgets will now have to do so with falling budgets. That is a different kind of skill." Most of the people with experience of running government departments with falling budgets have retired from the profession. "It is going to be testing for the Civil Service," Baume said. Preparing line managers was now a major issue for HR, he added. "The big challenge...

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