Children's Workforce Strategy
Developing the Children's Workforce for 2020
Following publication of the Children's Plan, the Government has established an Expert Group on the Children's Workforce to support the development of a long-term strategy for the children's workforce. This will ensure that the development of the children's workforce as a whole is appropriately supported; enabling people working with children, young people and their families to deliver services that help children and young people achieve their full potential across all five Every Child Matters outcomes.
The children's workforce means everyone who works with children, young people or their families (including volunteers) because they all have a role to play in improving outcomes for children and young people.
Building Brighter Futures: Next Steps for the Children's Workforce was published in April 2008. It describes progress so far in the development of the children's workforce, and sets out actions for the next three years. It builds on the Children's Workforce Strategy that was published in 2005 and the consultation on the Children's Workforce Strategy Update - Spring 2007.
Building Brighter Futures: Next Steps for the Children's Workforce also sets the context for the development of the long-term strategy which will look forward to 2020. This work is being supported by the Expert Group on the Children's Workforce, which is jointly chaired by Jim Knight, Minister for Schools and Learners; Kevin Brennan, Parliamentary under Secretary of State for Children, Young People and Families; and Maggie Atkinson, President of the Association of Directors of Children's Services.
Download the full list of members.
Call for evidence
The 2020 Children's Workforce Strategy project is currently calling for evidence, under the following headings:
- Workforce capacity
- Excellence in practice
- Purpose and roles
- Improving joint working
- Workforce interventions what works?
- Delivering and managing workforce reform
If you have evidence that you would like to submit, please complete this cover sheet and email it, together with your evidence, to the Children's Workforce Strategy Team.
Documents
Children's
Workforce Strategy - a strategy to build a world class workforce for children
and young people - Consultation Document (May 2008)
Building Brighter Futures: Next Steps for the Children's
Workforce
Managing
and Leading Children's Services in England: a national performance and
development framework (April 2007)
Children's
Workforce Strategy Update - Spring 2007
The
Children's Workforce Strategy: Building an Integrated Qualifications
Framework
Children's
Workforce Strategy - a strategy to build a world class workforce for children
and young people - Consultation Document
Children's
Workforce Strategy: analysis of responses to the consultation
document
4Children:
Consulting Children and Young People on the Children's Workforce
Strategy
Children's
Workforce Strategy - Full Regulatory Impact Assessement
Race
Equality and the Children's Workforce Strategy
This page was last updated on 09 June 2008
