The array of fast-track training schemes in the children’s sector has grown steadily over the last two decades, fuelled by the double threat of staffing shortages and increasing demand for support.
Among the first to launch was Teach First, which was created in 2002 to attract high-quality graduates into the teaching profession in disadvantaged areas.
Since then fast-track schemes have been set up for social work such as the Frontline and Step Up to Social Work courses, prisons, the police and in health while new-fast track training for youth workers is in the pipeline.
There is demand from employers to recruit talented youth workers quickly, explains the National Youth Agency’s director of youth work Abbee McLatchie.
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