CIPD Policy Paper - 'Quangos in the Education and Skills System'
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Date published:
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22/07/2010
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1015
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On 21 July, CIPD published a paper ‘Quangos in the Education and Skills System’ which called for a number of education quangos to be cut.
It accuses LSN of being a quango and calls for it to be cut. LSN is not a quango, it is an independent charity.
On 21st July, CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development) published a policy paper ‘Quangos in the Education and Skills System’ which called for a number of education quangos to be cut in order to save £500m of public funds.
The paper accuses LSN of being a quango funded by LSIS, and calls for it to be cut.
LSN is not a quango, it is an independent charity which receives no grant funding from government.
The CIPD paper was covered in the Telegraph business section, the CIPD’s in-house magazine Personnel Management, and a number of other HR trade titles.
Colin Kerr, LSN’s Chief Operating Officer has written the following letter to the editors of all these titles:
On 21st July, your article “Quango cull could net 500m of savings” covered a CIPD policy paper which called for a cull of education quangos. Amongst the quangos targeted in the report is LSN (formerly the Learning and Skills Network).
LSN is not a quango. It is a private, independent charity which seeks to improve learning and skills in this country. Contrary to the CIPD’s report, LSN is not in receipt of grant funding, nor have any of its recent acquisitions been funded by the taxpayer.
In the wake of major public sector cuts and the recent re-launch of David Cameron’s Big Society, LSN and other third sector organisations like us will play a critical part in the future of the UK’s education and skills delivery, not the past.
The CIPD calls for four tests to determine whether an education and skills quango should survive government cuts. The 3rd test asks whether the organisation is crowding out, or competing with, private or third sector organisations.
The irony of this is not lost on us.
LSN is also seeking a retraction from the CIPD.