The National Children and Young People’s Workforce Partnership was established by the previous Labour government to inform the delivery of its 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy.
But after running for around four years, members have been informed of a decision to scrap the forum through an email from a senior civil servant at the Department for Education (DfE).
In the email, seen by CYP Now, Graham Archer, deputy director of the DfE’s safeguarding group, said that after “careful consideration”, the partnership will no longer continue.
He said that although the partnership was “at times an exceptionally useful forum”, it had become “a little less valuable and a little less well attended” in recent times.
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