In a letter to Education Secretary Michael Gove, Nick Johnson argued that this year’s proposed spending on professional development for residential childcare workers is woefully inadequate.
The Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) is investing £25,000 or 0.02 per cent of its £113m budget in residential childcare work this year.
But more than 70 per cent of its budget is due to be spent on professional development in social work, while almost 15 per cent is earmarked for early years.
"The social care sector has 1.5m people working in it and where children are concerned, demands the very best people," Johnson said.
"They are the people who provide direct care when field social workers have gone home. By the time a young person is supported in a residential placement, they have usually experienced multiple failures elsewhere."
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