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Workforce planning
What is workforce planning?
Workforce planning helps an organisation to estimate its future workforce requirements and calculate the numbers, nature and sources of potential employees who might meet that demand.
In other words, it’s about getting the right number of people, with the right skills, in the right place and at the right time.
Effective workforce planning helps councils identify and plan how to tackle their current and future workforce challenges and priorities. It provides a sound basis for developing an effective workforce strategy.
About this resource
Local Government Improvement and Development (formerly IDeA) has produced an introduction and six-step workforce planning guide to help councils through their workforce planning process. It reflects our learning from councils’ experiences of what does and doesn't work in practice.
To make it easier for councils to join up their workforce planning with their health service partners, the approach has been based on the six-step methodology to integrated workforce planning developed by Skills for Health. It has been supplemented by tools and techniques developed by the Institute of Employment Studies.
The resource also includes case studies and a list of useful documents and links.
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