A well-trained, well-motivated workforce is essential to help improve the lives of children and young people. Since 2005, the Children’s Workforce Development Council has had the principal role of advancing the skills of people working across children’s services, which it has done through a range of training programmes and initiatives.
It has also promoted the vision of the children’s workforce as a cohesive whole, in which people from different disciplines are encouraged to work together in the best interests of the child. And it has aimed to ensure the views and experiences of employers influence workforce reform.
But at the end of this month, the CWDC will disappear as part of the government’s "bonfire of the quangos", in which 192 public bodies are axed. The organisation’s responsibilities are being parcelled off to various agencies and arms of government.
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