Key
- Research
- Define Credible Options
- Assess and Select Preferred Option
- Approve Strategy
- Implement Strategy
Developing Our Strategy
You can understand how we control and manage the development of our strategy by reading our short guide:
Strategy Management System Short Guide (250kb)

See also
News on Skills
23 November 2009
Top award for world’s deepest nuclear clean-up
Dounreay shaft isolation project named as one of the country’s best examples of civil engineering.
17 September 2009
Nuclear graduate programme ranked in Times100
The nuclear graduates programme, initiated by the NDA, has received a Top 100 accolade from The Times newspaper.
02 September 2009
Cash boost for North Highlands tourism
Caithness and North Sutherland receive £275k funding boost from the NDA, HIE, Visit Scotland and Highland Council.
19 June 2009
Secretary of State opens ENERGUS
Ed Miliband opened ENERGUS, a state of the art £20m skills, training and education facility in Cumbria.
06 November 2008
NDA launches National Skills & Capability Strategy
The NDA has published its National Skills and Capability strategy to support its mission for clean-up and decommissioning.
Skills & Capability
Last Updated: 08 March 2010
Current Position
Ongoing Work
Position at Strategy II
The Skills and Capability Strategy is being implemented
Additional aspects relating to people are being researched
The extended strategy will be implemented and monitored
Historically, Site Licence Companies (SLCs) have had responsibility for skills development, with the NDA providing oversight on the effectiveness of the approaches taken. The NDA mission needs Parent Body Organisations and Site Licence Companies to understand each other's approach to ensure that best practice is understood and shared across the estate.
A review of this approach has concluded that the NDA needs to take a more proactive approach to ensure that SLC Resource and Skills Strategies are aligned to the delivery of the NDA mission. A more coherent approach will also provide benefits in terms of efficiency increases and compliance to the NDA's obligations under the Energy Act. To this end, the content of the Skills and Capability Strategy launched in 2008 and the associated Action Plan will be extended to cover wider "people" issues including resource management opportunities, broader human resource implications and the collective use of the skills infrastructure across the NDA estate.
NDA Skills and Capability Strategy (1Mb)
Downloadable version of this page:
People (including Skills and Capability) Topic Strategy Summary (150Kb)
Objective
Through collaboration, to ensure that the industry has the capability, resources and supporting infrastructure to carry out our mission efficiently and more effectively.Scope and Boundaries
This strategy covers people in the NDA and SLCs and supporting infrastructure focussing on
- Understanding the need
- Delivering skills and training programmes
- Providing a robust infrastructure
- Developing and maintaining networks
- Standards and benchmarking
- Enablers.
Interfaces
The people strategy interfaces with a number of other topics including:
- Decommissioning and clean-up strategy is related because of the impact on available skilled resources
- Research and development strategy is related because of capability requirements to support current and plannned work
- Supply chain development strategy is related because of the of the need to ensure there is the capability to deliver site programmes
- Socio-economic strategy is related because of the impact on local communities
Credible Options
The maintenance and development of a skilled workforce to undertake decommissioning is a statutory duty. As such the credible options available to NDA are limited and relate to the extent that we exercise this duty. The options considered were:
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Continue the current practice with SLCs developing skills to suit their own needs
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NDA works collaboratively with SLCs to develop a standardised, consolidated and rationalised approach relating to people across the estate.
Current Position
The current strategy is to adopt a collaborative approach to improve efficiency.
The Skills and Capability Strategy is mature and is being implemented. The additional aspects and associated risks related to a comprehensive People Strategy are being identified.
The Skills and Capability Strategy is at Stage D, the elements of People Strategy are at Stage 0 in the Strategy Management System.
Position at Strategy II (June 2010)
The current Skills and Capability Strategy will incorporate the broader aspects of a People Strategy and continue to be implemented and monitored.
Stakeholder Engagement on Skills & Capability
The same key stakeholders who were consulted with on the Skills and Capability Strategy will be used for peer review as the wider People Strategy evolves.
People Strategy Working Group
In an advisory capacity to determine the rationale and initial scope of the strategy there is a working group consisting of:
- NDA HR Director and Business Partners
- SLC HR Directors or senior SLC HR deputies
- Site Facing NDA Assurance Directors
- NDA specialist functions (e.g. Skills and Agency Supplied Worker areas) and
- the National Skills Academy for Nuclear CEO.
A Project Board, Delivery Team and Advisory Group are now in place to take the work forward.
Skills Strategy Development 2008
By working with partners across the industry we developed our Skills Strategy. The events below include outputs related to engagement activities that contributed to the development of the strategy for skills and capability.
05 July 2007
4th National Stakeholder Group Meeting
This meeting is by invitation only. It allows declared stakeholders to engage with NDA on various issues of national interest.
17 June 2009
8th National Stakeholder Group Meeting
This meeting is by invitation only. It allows declared stakeholders to engage with NDA on various issues of national interest.
18 November 2009
9th National Stakeholder Group Meeting
This meeting is by invitation only. It allows declared stakeholders to engage with NDA on various issues of national interest.
17 March 2010
10th National Stakeholder Group Meeting
This meeting is by invitation only. It allows declared stakeholders to engage with NDA on various issues of national interest.
07 November 2007
Draft Business Plan 2008-11 Consultation
Report on the public consultation on our draft Business Plan 2008-11 which ran from November 2007 to January 2008.
11 April 2007
Skills Strategy Workshop
Strategy Skills Workshop to encourage our contractors and supply chain to contribute to the development of the Skills Strategy.