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Analysis: Workforce - A step forward for sector's status

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After months of consultation the Government last week confirmed its strategy to transform the children's workforce and how the 125m Transformation Fund will be spent. David Singleton outlines the changes in store and the plan for bringing them about.

The Children's Workforce Development Council may have been up andrunning for some time but the real work is only just about to begin.

"There's been a lot of talk and consulting; we need to get on and dosomething now," admits chief executive Jane Haywood. The stimulus is theChildren's Workforce Strategy, unveiled by the Government last weekalong with details of how the 125m-a-year Transformation Fundwill be spent (Children Now, 15-12 February).

The Children's Workforce Development Council is charged with turning thestrategy from theory to reality and Haywood is keen to get on with thejob. "This is a document that I can work with and deliver against," shesays. "There's a clear set of things that need to be done and they areset out with clear timescales."

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