For the past few months, children's professionals have been waiting to hear how the Government plans to reshape the children's workforce.
At around 7pm on Friday 1 April, the Department for Education and Skills finally published its masterplan.
The Children's Workforce Strategy sets out the Government's proposals for reforming childcare, children's social work and foster care. The consultation also illustrates how the Government will promote change in schools, health and the voluntary and community sector.
Encouraging mobility
The strategy is aimed at establishing a "world class" children's workforce and to make it easier for people to move between different professions within it. Or as children's minister Margaret Hodge put it: "The children's workforce stretches across many professional and organisational boundaries. More coherent pathways will allow for progress across, as well as within, those boundaries."
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