Steve Munby, chief executive of the National College for School Leadership (NCSL), is the man charged with helping directors of children's services through these troubled times.
At the end of last year, he was asked to lead a new training programme for directors of children's services (DCSs), as part of the government's 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.
Training starts in September, so Munby has a busy few months ahead. So far he's conducted 20 phone interviews with DCSs. More are in the pipeline and he plans to shadow several DCSs before the programme kicks off.
He's been asking them questions like "do you enjoy your job?" and "what should the programme do?".
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