Responsibilities for training

13.5  Previous work has identified weaknesses in the governance of training, partly due to the number of stakeholders involved and a lack of clarity over their  responsibilities. We understand that progress has been made in this area recently, but judge that further changes are needed to reflect our proposals on the overall model and allow Head Office to step back from delivery. In our view, Head Office should be responsible for setting overall corporate policy, strategic direction and prioritisation, balance of investment across Defence and assurance, and for setting MOD-specific training and education requirements for civil servants. However, Commander JFC should take on responsibility for setting the high-level joint requirement and Defence training standards; the delivery of training for its allocated enabling capabilities and joint collective training, including the management of and budget for the Defence Exercise Programme, and co-ordinating user requirements for the Defence Academy on behalf of Head Office. There would be no change in responsibilities for the delivery of other military training, with the Services continuing to deliver individual basic and special-to-role training and organic collective training, subject to the work on jointery set out in Part 9.