Our people

We will always consider our people to be our most important asset. As set out in Year 2 of our People Plan, our primary focus will be the ongoing growth and development of our staff to ensure they are adequately supported and equipped to deliver our strategic priorities. This will be enabled by a range of learning and development interventions identified as part of our corporate learning needs analysis.

We will commence the scoping for a Corporate Competency and Behavioral Framework which sets out the expected skills and behaviours of our people. This will support our ambition of being a focused and efficient organisation, balanced with a strong emphasis on our values and leaders actively supporting their teams. 

Our intention is to continue to build a culture of continuous improvement, where our staff feel supported, enabled and recognised.

Overview of our resource and full time equivalent (FTE) for 2026/27

Figure 1: Overview of our resource and FTE for 2026/27⁵

⁵ The pay and non-pay figures have been rounded up to one decimal place. There is also additional Practitioner Performance Advice income of £1m, offsetting associated expenditure, giving an overall envelope of £87.5m. The FTE figure provided is the average full-time equivalent staff budgeted throughout 2026/27. At year end, the March 2027 budgeted FTE is 1,005. A decision has been made to add a Director of People, which will be added into the SMT structure during 2026/27 following the completion of a recruitment process