About the Children & Young People's Workforce Strategy

The Children's Workforce Strategy was published by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES) as a consultative document in 2005. Its main objective was to improve outcomes for children and young people by ensuring that those people who plan, manage and deliver services at the front line have the skills and capacity to deliver a quality service. In other words the provision of a skilled and more stable workforce, in sufficient numbers, led and deployed effectively around the needs of children and young people.

The Government has now confirmed their vision of a children's workforce that:

• Strives to achieve the best possible outcomes for all children and young people.
• Reduces inequalities between the most disadvantaged and the rest.
• Is competent, confident and safe to work with children and young people.
• People aspire to be part of and want to remain in jobs where they can develop their skills and build satisfying and rewarding careers.
• Parents, children and young people trust and respect.

Visit the National CSW website (link opens new window)

Visit the Children's Workforce Development Council website (link opens new window)