You're correct; IiP was a government initiative of the day and Public Sector organisations were hurriedly encouraged to become compliant to encourage the Private Sector to do the same. At the time of IiP's introduction I could not see what the fuss was about as, at that time, we very much invested in our people (OK, perhaps not as well as we could) but we did. I was pinged to introduce IiP at sunny AKI in 97 and I recall OC Admin Wg giving his best Noel Coward impression when briefing me, "You'll deal with this as the educator as it's anathema to me dear boy." IiP was, and is, only a framework for training and development but the paper chase it generated was a chuffing joke (and a gopping plastic blue triangle). Very interested to see PUS's announcement last year which wasn't exactly trumpeted. Not surprising really as we have done f*all since.
