Editorial: The biggest workforce changes are yet to come
By Ravi Chandiramani
Children & Young People Now
9 April 2008
The Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) last week issued a flurry of announcements to help develop the children and young people's workforce. Documents on next steps for the workforce, guidance on children's trusts, a framework for the management of children's services and England's first play strategy were all published on Thursday (see Analysis pp12-13).
Aside from some fresh funding to improve training and professional development in social work, play and early years, the announcements in the main offer a restatement of objectives for integrated working and a progress report on how services are working together. The big decisions...