301 redirects - probably a simple answer!

[SimonRoskrow]

I'd appreciate a little help! I've recently changed my company (and therefore website), and have started redirecting from the old website to the new one. Most parts are straightforward, even for me! For example, the four pages I have within a "skills" folder have been redirected as follows:

redirect 301 /skills/communication http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/communication-training
redirect 301 /skills/personal-development http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/self%20knowledge
redirect 301 /skills/teamwork http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/teamwork-training
redirect 301 /skills/leadership http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/leadership-training

works fine.

The problem I want to fix is that there is a "parent" page (I think that's the right terminology) which is /skills (http://www.skill-build.co.uk/skills). I want to redirect this to another page in the new website, but if I use:

redirect 301 /skills http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/what

it not only redirects the parent page, but it affects the child pages as well. If I use this code, the teamwork child page (for example) goes to:

http://www.trainingreality.co.uk/what/teamwork

which doesn't exist. I know I could create pages to fit with these redirects, but wondered if there was a more elegant solution.

Thanks for your help.

Simon.