After all, who would not agree that practitioners at all levels who work with children should be more valued, better qualified, and able to engage in multi-disciplinary and inter-agency working, confident of their own abilities and the support of their managers?
However, there was also a degree of scepticism that the Government can pull it off. Professionals need to be reassured that working in a multi-disciplinary environment won't rip them away from the support of their own professional teams that they are used to receiving. There is a lot of work still to be done by both the Government and the Children's Workforce Development Council to overcome confusion about what some of the reform ideas mean, such as the proposal for a common core of training for all children's workers.
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