Cuts to early intervention services are having a devastating effect on recruitment across the children's workforce.
In health, community nursery nurse roles are among the hardest hit, while youth workers are bearing the brunt of council cutbacks.
The reduction in such posts is having a knock-on effect on other roles, with a lack of early support creating higher and more complex caseloads for social workers, with many leaving the profession.
British Association of Social Workers (BASW) England manager Maris Stratulis describes this as a "ripple effect" with "cuts to preventative services creating increasingly complex workloads in social care".
Career progression has also been hit, with senior management roles across the workforce being merged, leading to a reduction in opportunities for ambitious children's services professionals. This also means those taking top-level posts are having to take on extra responsibilities, sometimes overseeing areas in which they have little experience.
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