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Career In Depth
Skills for the Job: Self-evaluation
Being able to demonstrate that the service you provide actually delivers results can be vital to secure your project's long-term future.
Careers: Family court adviser
A rise in care applications has led to greater demand for family court advisers, finds Charlotte Goddard.
Careers: Youth offending team worker
The role of youth offending team workers is becoming increasingly varied, finds Charlotte Goddard
Careers: Outdoor education worker
Outdoor education workers need practical skills to back up their qualifications, finds Charlotte Goddard
Qualifications for work with children & young people
- Qualified for the role
- Professional development: short courses
- Health & therapeutic disciplines: the route to qualification
- Education: the route to qualification
- Childcare, early years and play: the route to qualification
- Youth work: the route to qualification
- Youth justice: the route to qualification
- Social care: the route to qualification
Careers & Workplace News
- College of Social Work sets out its stall at inaugural event
- Scotland unveils plan to tackle youth unemployment
- Birmingham recruits Lincolnshire children's services chief
- Call for tighter regulation of early years training providers
- London councils win apprenticeship funding
- Fifth of childminders lack knowledge or confidence in EYFS
- Revised standards for early years professionals unveiled
- Staff at family drugs support centre to vote on strike
- College of Social Work gets off the ground
- Government releases strategy to improve opportunities for young people
Career profiles
Careers Interview: Katrina Swain, family court adviser
There is no typical day for a family court adviser. On one day they might be in court, for example ensuring a family has the support they need to have contact with a child.
Careers Interview: David Wright, owner and manager, PaintPots nursery chain
David Wright owns and manages the PaintPots nursery chain in Southampton. He gained Early Years Professional Status as part of the programme's pilot in 2007, through the University of Southampton - he was one of the first people to enrol on the cours...
Careers: Independent sexual violence advisers
Victims of sexual abuse receive support from ISVAs to overcome the trauma, writes Charlotte Goddard.
Careers Interview: Annie New, extended schools co-ordinator for the Alban Way Consortium
Annie New works across five primary schools and two secondary schools.
Newly Qualified: The earliest of interventions
Winston Morson took a degree to further his career and is now responsible for pre-birth assessments.
My Placement: Vanessa Honeyghan, final year student, social work degree, University of Birmingham
I was placed in a primary school in a town near Birmingham between September 2008 and February 2009. I was the first student social worker that they'd had.
Careers Interview: Kim Hatley, family outreach worker, Wishing Well Children's Centre, Rochford, Essex
Kim Hatley has worked as a family outreach worker for two years. She says she "absolutely loves" her job working for children's charity 4Children.
Careers: Newly qualified - Never too late to retrain
Mum-of-four Tracy Lormor was almost 40 when she began her social work degree. Emily Rogers reports.
Careers Interview: Philippa Grace, senior educational psychologist, Education Bradford
Philippa Grace has been a psychologist for 12 years and describes her job as "working creatively and effectively to apply psychology to make a difference in children's lives".
Newly Qualified: Flexibility of agency work
Kamara Palmer is an agency social worker in Leicestershire Council's 16-plus leaving care team. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in September 2009.
Additional Information
Latest jobs Jobs web feed
- Social Worker London Borough of Barnet £29,601 - £34,542, Barnet
- Deputy Director Children's Services (East) Spurgeons Starting £53,741-£55,084 p.a. rising to £61,867 p.a., Befordshire, Hertfordshire and Essex
- Children's Services Manager (South) Spurgeons Starting £36,313-£38,961 p.a. rising to £42,519 p.a., South England
- Assistant Manager Family Action £31,449- £34,484 inclusive of Inner London Weighting, Wandsworth
- Manager - Children's Commissioning Team London Borough of Sutton Grade SM1 Salary Min £46,050 Max £53,655 (unconsolidated), Sutton, Surrey
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Most commented
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