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Workforce Development and Training

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Workforce issues are seen as major challenges to the success of the short breaks programme. There is a need for a rapid expansion of the workforce on a number of levels – workforce responsible for implementing the programme, care providers and staff who support care providers and the children receiving services. In some areas, the additional funding represents more than a 100% increase in service and the need to transform the workforce should reflect this.  

In December 2008 the Government published the 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy. This sets out the Government's vision that everyone who works with children and young people should be:

  • Ambitious for every child and young person
  • Excellent in their practice
  • Committed to partnership and integrated working
  • Respected and valued as professionals
  • Whatever their role, the aim is to ensure that the workforce has the skills and knowledge to do the best job they possibly can to help children and young people develop and succeed across all the outcomes which underpin Every Child Matters: being safe, staying healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being.


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    Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) Action Learning

    This factsheet gives introductory guidance. It:
    · looks at what action learning is and how learning takes place
    · indicates where action learning may be used
    · examines how action learning set meetings operate
    · considers how to ensure that action learning works well
    · includes the CIPD viewpoint.


     News

    Free access to Interconnections Quarterly Journal (IQJ) No. 10
    16/08/2010

    IQJ is a quarterly UK subscription Journal in the field of childhood disability. Issue 10 has just been published online and Interconnections are trying to get it more widely known so are offering you free access to this Issue. The free access code is below for you. This gives you access to Issue 10 and all previous issues. To access IQJ now - Go to www.icwhatsnew.com Click on 'Journal' Look down the page for the flower logo and click on it. For name type: ben For password type: nicholson10

    Source: IQJ

    Interconnections Electronic Bulletin August 2010
    05/08/2010

    This issue includes: Lecture & Lunch: ‘Towards 21st Century working practices in Early Childhood Intervention’ – Birmingham and Edinburgh How can therapists and teachers work together better? How can we prevent intervention overload? How can we use limited resources better? Conference: Autism and the Criminal Justice System This unique one-day conference from The National Autistic Society (NAS) will provide practical guidance for criminal justice professionals… 2-day Course on the Team Around the Child System (TAC): the family-owned antidote to confusion and time-wasting London in October 2010. Each child’s TAC is family-owned and creates effective Early Childhood Intervention for children with multifaceted conditions. Places limited Conference: ICF-CY* as a Common Language in Early Childhood Intervention Germany in September 2010. * International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, Version for Children and Youth Deaf Children with Complex Needs: A Virtual Conference This will be our second virtual conference with a host of international speakers Disability Voice: An inside view on disability in Europe – monthly newsletter of the European Disability Forum ‘We keep meeting high level decision-makers to ensure that persons with disabilities are taken on board of the EU strategy for the next decade’ ‘Guidelines on the Care of People with Learning Disabilities in General Hospital Settings’ – children included - published by GAIN in Northern Ireland, a team of health and social care professionals working to promote quality in the Health Service New initiative: The Learning Disabilities and Family Carers project The Princess Royal Trust for Carers and Crossroads Care are working together on a national project funded by the Valuing People Support Team Virtual edition of Child: Care, Health & Development Child development and disability - Virtual Issue edited by Matthew Ellis ‘Training for Trainers - Key Working’ 2010 The SNIP (now known as Kindred) Key Worker Training course has been delivered to over 5,000 professionals… New resource - Baby First! - designed to assist health care professionals to support families over the first important year of life when their baby has an intellectual disability Voluntary organisations find a better way of working with shared services NCB Shared Services provides agencies and voluntary organisations working with children, young people and their families with a wide choice of support services…


    Academy for Play and Playwork – logo competition
    26/07/2010

    Following various consultations with the playwork sector SkillsActive is working with playworkers, employers, and training providers across the UK to establish the ‘Academy for Play and Playwork’. The Academy for Play and Playwork will be the professional body for the sector and provide recognition and support for the ‘playwork profession'. Get Involved! The academy will need a logo which will be used on all marketing material, and would like you to create one for them. To take part you will need to be: A playworker A child or young person The competition winner will receive a prize: A child or young person - £25 voucher A playworker - £50 voucher The setting will receive - £100 voucher The Rules are Simple SkillsActive need a logo created that will appeal to playworkers, people who are committed and working in play but not face to face, employers, students and volunteers who are committed to ensuring children and young people have opportunities to play in safe environments outside of formal education. The following must feature in your logo somewhere: The colour orange be it on the words or your image, other than orange you can use any colour you wish The following words to be displayed somewhere: Academy for Play and Playwork, Part of the SkillsActive Group Next Steps: Spread the word and get involved, make use of any opportunities you have working with children and young people, if you are running a Play Day event you could have some material available for children and young people to use. 1. Draw your designs on one piece of A4 paper. 2. Include bottom right of the paper your name, contact email address and phone number 3. Scan it in to a PC and email it to playwork@skillsactive.com or, if that is not possible post it to Playwork, Skills Active, Castlewood House, 77 – 91 New Oxford Street, London, WC1A 1DG 4. Closing date for submissions is Thursday 12th August. Anything received after this date will not be considered. The winner will be notified by Friday 20th August either by email or phone from one of the SkillsActive team.

    Source: SkillsActive

    Early years audit tool to provide vital workforce data
    23/09/2009

    The Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is carrying out an audit to create the first accurate picture of qualifications in the early years workforce in England. The Early Years Audit Tool has been launched online and settings are being encouraged to submit information about their practitioners to help CWDC ensure high quality provision in childcare settings for all babies and children aged birth-to-five.

    Source: CWDC

    New training standards for short break carers
    04/06/2009

    The Children's Workforce Development Council has published new standards for the assessment and training of short break carers of disabled children. The standards cover six key areas, including effective communication, child development, self-development and keeping young people safe from harm. They apply to all carers covered under the Fostering Services Regulations (2002), which refers to people who offer day or overnight care of disabled children and those with complex health needs, primarily in the carer's home.

    Source: InCare