CYP Now - Qualifications and Training Guide: Directors

Leadership roles in children's services are becoming more wide-ranging with those in senior positions increasingly finding themselves responsible for services outside their historical area of expertise. As integrated delivery becomes more established, there is increasing fluidity between the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Many of the challenges public sector leaders face test their ability to manage dilemmas, in which there may be no single "best way" to proceed, says Roger Bushell, principal associate at The Staff College, one of the main sources of training for children's services leaders. "The challenge is to find ways of working successfully in a difficult and unpredictable space where you may be alone but can't operate in isolation; you may have to take risks, but your first concern must be for the welfare of others; you may want to think systemically, but must act quickly and decisively," he explains.

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