Children’s Workforce Guide to Qualifications and Training

• Careers | Courses and training

With enduring challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic,...

Glen Fendley: How I Got Here

• Careers | Leadership

London Youth's director of fundraising on his career to...

How I Got Here: Tish Feilden

• Careers | Education | Extra-curricular | Health | Mental health | Mental Health | Outdoor Learning

The psychotherapist and co-founder of charity Jamie’s Farm...

Getting the lowdown on fast-track training schemes

• Careers | Courses and training | Education | Social Care | Youth Justice

Recent years have seen a proliferation of fast-track and...

How I Got Here: Julie Gonzalez, youth support co-ordinator, Teenage Cancer Trust

• Health | Youth Work | Careers

How I Got Here: Sharon Lovell, National Youth Advocacy Service

• Careers | Management | Leadership | Youth Work | Youth services

Sharon Lovell, National executive director (Wales), National...

How I Got Here: Sharon Davies, chief executive, Young Enterprise

• Management | Leadership | Careers | Youth Work

I left home at an early age, and after several jobs...

Leadership: Inclusive recruitment

• Management | Leadership | Careers

Individuals from diverse backgrounds offer employers a...

Why we changed careers to work with children

• Careers | Early Years | Children's Services | Social Care | Fostering and adoption | Health | Health visiting | Management | Leadership

Many children’s and youth services are experiencing staffing...

Louis Boyd: How I Got Here

• Careers | Leadership | Youth Work | Youth volunteering

Statutory partnerships manager at Volunteering Matters Louis...

Ella Hallpike: How I Got Here

• Careers | Participation | Youth Work

Ella Hallpike, youth support co-ordinator at the Teenage...

Careers: Virtual head teacher

• Careers | Education | Social Care

Virtual heads promote the educational achievement of...

Career Profile: Jane Comeau, childminder and vice chair of NCMA

• Careers | Early Years

Jane Comeau has been a childminder since 1995.

Skills for the Job: Self-evaluation

• Careers

Being able to demonstrate that the service you provide...

Careers: Family court adviser

• Careers | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass

A rise in care applications has led to greater demand for...

Skills for the Job: Safeguarding children online

• Careers | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection | Youth Work

All professionals working with children and young people...

Careers: Youth offending team worker

• Careers | Youth Justice

The role of youth offending team workers is becoming...

Skills for the Job: Managing volunteers

• Careers | Youth Work

Effective management is vital to get the best out of...

Careers: Outdoor education worker

• Careers | Education | Outdoor Learning

Outdoor education workers need practical skills to back up...

Education welfare officer

• Careers | Education

Education welfare officers resolve issues that impede...

Training at the top

• Careers

Directors of children's services face unique challenges,...

Skills for the Job: First aid training

• Careers | Courses and training | Health | Youth Work

First aid in youth work environments is crucial, as St John...

Careers: Youth participation worker

• Careers | Youth Work | Participation

Youth participation workers help young people make their...

Skills for the Job: Eating disorders

• Careers | Health | Youth Work

Eating disorders affect people from all backgrounds. The...

Skills for the Job: Volatile substance abuse

• Careers | Health | Drugs and alcohol | Youth Work

Volatile substance abuse can cause sudden death. Stephen...

Careers: Independent sexual violence advisers

• Careers | Social Care | Safeguarding and child protection

Victims of sexual abuse receive support from ISVAs to...

Skills for the Job: Literacy problems

• Careers | Education | Youth Work

The National Literacy Trust's Emily McCoy explains the steps...

Skills for the Job: Teenage pregnancy

• Careers | Health | Youth Work

Youth professionals have a key role to play in helping to...

Careers Interview: Annie New, extended schools co-ordinator for the Alban Way Consortium

• Careers | Education | Extra-curricular

Annie New works across five primary schools and two...

Skills for the Job: Resolving conflict

• Careers | Youth Work

Youth workers need to understand the ingredients of conflict...

My Placement: Vanessa Honeyghan, final year student, social work degree, University of Birmingham

• Careers | Courses and training | Social Care

I was placed in a primary school in a town near Birmingham...

Newly Qualified: The earliest of interventions

• Careers | Courses and training | Social Care

Winston Morson took a degree to further his career and is...

Careers Interview: Kim Hatley, family outreach worker, Wishing Well Children's Centre, Rochford, Essex

• Careers | Early Years

Kim Hatley has worked as a family outreach worker for two...

Skills for the Job: Exam stress

• Careers | Education | Youth Work

The school examinations period is under way. Andy Hillier...

Careers: Newly qualified - Never too late to retrain

• Careers | Social Care

Mum-of-four Tracy Lormor was almost 40 when she began her...

Newly Qualified: Flexibility of agency work

• Careers | Courses and training | Social Care

Kamara Palmer is an agency social worker in Leicestershire...

My Placement: Rachel Edwards, social worker, Stockport Council's family support team

• Careers | Courses and training | Families/Parenting | Social Care

I did my placement in Stockport's family support team...

Skills for the Job: How to get young people involved in campaigning

• Careers | Youth Work

Young people should play an active part in campaigns but...

Careers Interview: Cheryl Baddeley, manager of Oak tree Nursery, Ilfracombe, Devon

• Careers | Early Years | Nurseries

The Oak Tree Nursery is part of the My Start Children's...

Skills for the Job: Digital literacy

• Careers | Youth Work

Youth professionals need to embrace digital media and new...

Careers: Youth centre manager

• Careers | Management | Youth Work | Youth clubs

The Myplace youth facilities programme is creating new...

GSCC Update: Time management is crucial

• Careers | Courses and training | Social Care

The latest on registration and conduct from the General...

Skills for the Job: Writing funding applications

• Careers | Management | Youth Work

What steps should you take to ensure that your funding...

Interview: Andy Burnham, shadow education secretary

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview

Andy Burnham is still in migration phase, getting to grips...

Interview: Baroness Beverley Hughes, Labour peer

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Social Care | Youth Justice | Youth Work | Interview

Beverley Hughes, the former children's minister who was...

Newly Qualified: If I can do it, anybody can

• Careers | Social Care

Debbie Coppock is a social worker in the duty and assessment...

Qualified for the role

• Careers

A formal qualification is increasingly becoming a...

Professional development: short courses

• Careers

There is a vast array of short courses available to...

Youth justice: the route to qualification

• Careers | Youth Justice

Few sectors are as complicated as youth justice, so choosing...

Michael Tichelar, children's services strategy manager, Bath and North East Somerset Council

• Careers

Michael Tichelar is the local area partnership strategy...

How I Got Here: Reverend Dez Johnston

• Careers | Management | Leadership

Alpha Scotland's director on his career milestones.

Karen Childs Smith: How I Got Here

• Careers | Children's Services

Karen Childs Smith, head of knowledge and information at...

Ask the Experts: Making a move to management

• Careers | Early Years | Early years education | Nurseries | Management | Leadership | Service configuration | Youth Work

Our expert panel offers advice on staff supervision, team...

Skills for the Job: Ensure a good work-life balance

• Careers | Health | Children's Services | Management | Leadership

As pressures in children's services continue to rise, there...

Skills for the Job: Tackling disability prejudice

• Careers | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Children's rights | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Children's professionals must recognise all forms of...

Skills for the Job: Getting young people to vote

• Careers | Education | Citizenship | Participation

Professionals should use the Scottish referendum as a...

Skills for the Job: Support children post-adoption

• Careers | Children's rights | Families/Parenting | Social Care | Family courts and Cafcass | Fostering and adoption

Ensuring the needs of adopted children and young people are...

Skills for the Job: Prepare young people for interviews

• Careers | Youth Work

In a tough jobs market, young people need support to improve...

Skills for the Job: Working with blind children

• Careers | Early Years | Play | Education | Health | Disabled children and young people | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Understanding the impact of visual impairments can make a...

Skills for the Job: Helping young people with literacy

• Careers | Education | Extra-curricular | Children's Services

With England near the bottom of international literacy...

Skills for the job: Working with autistic children

• Careers | Early Years | Education | Health | Children's Services | Social Care | Youth Work | Special Educational Needs & Disabilities

Patience and consideration are qualities needed to work...

Skills for the Job: De-escalating a confrontation

• Careers | Education | Children's Services | Youth Justice | Youth Work

Having a range of communication skills can help children's...

Skills for the Job: Dealing with self-harm

• Careers | Health | Mental health | Youth Work

Being able to identify the warning signs that a young person...

Practice Placements: A chance to help vulnerable young people to develop

• Careers | Social Care

The Prince's Trust Working for Wellbeing scheme offers...

Keeping Your Head: NfER Analysis of Head Teacher Retention

• Careers | Education | Leadership

An increasing number of teachers are leaving the profession...