Here's the presentation used to deliver the webinar for Learning Pool Finance.

1. Learning Pool Finance

2. Learning Pool
• The online learning community
• Exclusively for the public sector
• For employees, councillors, governors,
• Content, tools and platform
• Everything to deliver a real return

3. The need for finance training
• Financial management has always been
important for financial control and value for
money reasons
• The current savings climate in local government
makes finance skills even more important
• Budget managers are key players in the council’s
financial control, but
• Budget managers find finance a challenging topic
– even understanding the jargon is a challenge!

4. Learning Pool Finance
• Developed in partnership with LG
Futures, specialists in local government finance
• Based on existing successful classroom courses
provided by LG Futures for public sector officers
and councillors
• Can be used as part of a blend or standalone

5. Subscription content
Initial content:
1. A Year in the Life of the Budget Manager
(approx 3 hours) – available now
2. Local Government Finance Explained
(approx 1 hour) – available 30 Nov

6. A Year in the Life of the Budget
Manager
• learn about
– the role of the budget manager,
– how budgets are set,
– best practice budget management and
– preparing for year-end
• This course features 5 modules, plus a
separate quiz

7. Local Government Finance Explained
• You will learn
– where a council gets its money from
– how it agrees a budget and
– how it monitors spending
This course features 1 hour of content

8. The e-learning approach
• Concisely written with an emphasis on
activities, questions and feedback, and ‘putting it
into practice’
• Use of videos to support a storytelling approach
• Designed as a series of short topics to facilitate
dip in and dip out approach
• Some longer interactive exercises to challenge
the learner and encourage them to really
engage with the material

9. Why it’s great
• You can train lots of people quickly
• Make your training budgets work harder
• Ensure your learners get the same messages, as
often as they need
• Support new budget holders with immediate
training – no waiting for the next classroom
session
• Can be revisited by learners to top up learning
throughout the year

10. How much does it cost?
Up to 200 people £3,000 (£15 per person)
Up to 400 people £4,000 (£10 per person)
Up to 1,000 people £6,000 (£6 per person)
• Two year subscription – these figures are for 1 year
• Number of people refer to numbers of staff accessing the
content, rather than total number of employees

11. Guest access
• Pop your email address into the comment box
• We’ll send you guest access
• Nominate a colleague too, if needed

12. Questions...