The trade union has criticised plans put forward by the Children'sWorkforce Development Council (CWDC) to introduce a common framework ofskills for all professionals working with young people, including youthoffending teams, Connexions workers and youth workers.
The council's Skills Development Framework asks respondents to choosefrom three proposed models that provide a single professional frameworkfor the youth workforce. But Doug Nicholls, national secretary of CYWU'said members of the union had expressed concerns that the proposals setout by CWDC did not build on existing expertise within youth work. Hesaid: "Imagine running the health service on a common platform acrossall the professions within it. It will represent a dilution ofspecialisms. No other professional area of intervention would run on aset of weakened generic qualifications."
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