Creating a world class workforce for children, young people and families'

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Creating a world class workforce for children,
young people and families.

• Deirdre Quill
• Director of Delivery

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• The role of CWDC
• Our early ideas for integrated working and
  workforce reform

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CWDC works to improve the livesof children,
young people and families by

• ensuring people working with children have the
  best possible training, qualifications, support
  and advice
• and
• helping childrens organisations and services
  work together so the child is at the centre of
  services.

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Who are we?

• Sector Skills Council
• Workforce Reform Body
• Delivery Agent
• Partners of Government

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And we co-ordinate the Childrens Workforce
Network (England)
Skills for Care and Development
CWDC
TDA
Skills for Justice
Skills for Health
General Teaching Council
Childrens Workforce Network (England)
Childrens Workforce Network (England)
Lifelong Learning UK
General Social Care Council
SkillsActive
Improvement and Development Agency
Creative and Cultural Skills
Nursing and Midwifery Council
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What do we mean by Integrated Working?

• .. everyone supporting children and young
  people working together effectively to put the
  child at the centre, meet their needs and improve
  their lives.
• CWDC DCSF 2007

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To recap.

• October 2006 DCSF transferred responsibility for
  the implementation, not policy from a workforce
  perspective, of the
• Common Assessment Framework
• Lead Professional Role
• Information Sharing (not legal aspect)
• Multi agency working
• Championing Children

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Where next.

• Creation of a new department (DCSF)
• Childrens Plan
• Childrens Workforce Strategy Action Plan
• CWDC 2008/09 Business Plan
• All vehicles to embed integrated working

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Where next 2

• Response to listening to
• what you are telling us
• what young people are asking for
• How we make the move from the current Islands
  of integrated working to a whole system change
• Recognising that change is fundamentally about
  people and practice not just common structures
  and processes

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Workforce reform.

• Recognising that Integrated working isnt
  separate but an integral part of reforming the
  young peoples workforce
• What we need a step change in moving to workforce
  reform....

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What will a workforce reform model look like?
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What next 3..

• We are at the very early stages, and as such we
  are keen to have your thoughts
• Today is part of a bigger evaluation which will
  help shape the design of the model, however we
  hope to go out for wider consultation in the New
  Year
• Aim to begin delivering from April 2008

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