Workforce Development

MLA has an ambitious agenda relating to workforce development. We take it seriously as a fundamental issue facing museums, archives and libraries. We strongly believe that the sector's impact and our ability to realise the ambitious change necessary to provide a truly world-class service to our users depends on the 80,000 plus staff who work in it. Therefore, MLA has developed a national workforce development strategy for use as an action plan to enable museums, libraries and archives to meet the challenge of delivering truly 21st century services. The strategy is arranged under four key priorities:

Leadership and skills
Workforce composition
Empowering learning and change
Research

As part of this initiative, MLA is now working with a leading training provider, FPM, to provide development opportunities for current and aspiring leaders in our sector.

Partners

MLA works with many partners and stakeholders, such as the Sector Skills Councils , both to implement the actions identified within the strategy, and to ensure that initiatives undertaken in the field of workforce development within the sector have a clear link to the overall strategy. We are grateful to our many partners for their co-operative and participative approach to assisting us in implementing the workforce development strategy. Links to many of our key partners can be found on our Links pages.