Recession Puts Pressure on Skills

Research commissioned by the CIH indicates the recession and economic downturn is placing increasing pressure on the learning and development activities of housing organisations in England. The research indicated that the training activity of 52 per cent of housing organisations had already been affected by the recession. Nearly seventy per cent of housing organisations questioned expected the recession to have an impact on their training activity in 2010.Housing associations expect to be least affected by the recession (62 per cent), followed by ALMOs (76 per cent). Nearly all of local authorities (92 per cent) expect to be affected. Read more on the CIH website.