Deep within Whitehall, civil servants are busy drawing up plans to radically overhaul the role and nature of the UK's children's workforce - from social workers to youth workers, play workers to Connexions personal advisers.
Most of these ideas remain under wraps, waiting to emerge butterfly-like in a grand workforce reform strategy due out next spring. But some of the ideas have already surfaced. Last week, for example, a paper detailing proposals for how the Children, Young People and Families' Workforce Development Council for England (CWDC) would operate was put out to consultation (YPN, 24-30 November, p2).
The CWDC is one of several organisations being set up to help deliver the Government's plans to rethink the children and young people's workforce.
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