Speaking at the Association of Directors of Children's Services' (ADCS) annual conference in Manchester last week, Jane Haywood, chief executive of the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC), said a lack of common training and standardised pay structures is blighting the development of the workforce.
She said: "If you want to build a reformed workforce at local level then you need to do something about the induction of people across the whole workforce, and you need to have common training on things like the common assessment framework, leadership and management.
Paul Ennals, chief executive of the National Children's Bureau, agreed that a standardised approach would benefit the workforce. He told delegates: "There are too many outreach adviser and parent support-type jobs going around. There are more job descriptions than you can shake a stick at and no systematic approach to training."
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