4Children and the National Children's Bureau have been given 203,000 by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation for the two-year SupportingChildren and Families project. The project builds on NCB research thatshows that practitioners in the sector could be left behind in the driveto get different children's services to work together.
"They are such an important interface between children, families andcarers and the range of services designed to support them," saidchildren's workforce consultant Charlotte Pace, who is leading theproject.
"Their roles are changing but the training to support that is notnecessarily out there at the moment." More research will be done to findout what training people need. Pace said she would talk to frontlineworkers including nursery nurses, childminders, playgroup assistants,playworkers and youth workers.
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