Bath & North East Somerset Council - Workforce Planning and Development

Workforce Planning and Development

Change for Children/ Every Child Matters, 2020 Children and Young People’s Workforce Strategy and Working Together 2010 recognise that the workforce are critical to delivering improved outcomes for children and young people. Each of the strategies outline key areas for support and development.

The 2020 Strategy sets out the vision that everyone who works with children and young people should be:

Ambitious for every child and young person
Excellent in their practice
Committed to partnership and integrated working
Respected and valued as professionals

The aim is to ensure that members of the workforce have the skills and knowledge to do the best job they possibly can to help children and young people develop and succeed across all outcomes which underpin Every Child Matters; being healthy, staying safe, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being.

The Children and Young Peoples Plan 2011-2014, sets out the vision for Children and Young People in Bath and North East Somerset. "We want all Children and Young People to enjoy childhood and be prepared for adult life".

To achieve this vision all services for children and young people in Bath and North East Somerset must commit to supporting and improving the skills, experience and qualifications of their staff. A Workforce Reform Action Plan has been developed which sits alongside the CYPP. This plan outlines the key areas of workforce support/development for 2011-2014.

The Workforce Reform Strategy Group is responsible for developing and delivering the Workforce Reform Action Plan. This multi-agency group is chaired by Liz Price, Acting Divisional Director,Health,Commissioning & Strategic Planning and its members are third tier managers from Health, Social Care, Youth Service, Youth Offending Team, Human Resources, Strategic Planning and the Voluntary and Community sector.

The plan contains the following areas for development and can be found here

Promoting the culture of a safe organisation
Recruitment, retention and development of staff
Strengthen inter-agency and multi disciplinary working and workforce re-modelling
Promote stronger leadership, management and supervision
Specific information can be found on safer recruitment.

Common Induction and Integrated Working Training

A key and significant development from the Workforce reform action plan has been the development and recent delivery of the Common Induction Programme for new staff either working directly with children and young people or for those who are supervising staff who work directly with children and young people. This induction is based on the Children’s Workforce Development Council’s Common Core of knowledge and skills required by our children’s workforce. The Common Induction covers 4 days of training and the content is-

Day 1 - Working in a principled and valued way and promoting equality, diversity and inclusion

Day 2 - Child and young people’s development, Attachment and understanding and managing behaviour

Day 3 - Communicating with children and young people, working in a structured way and transitions

Day 4 - Introduction to Safeguarding, Health and Safety and Integrated Working

Further guidance on the Common Induction can be found on the CWDC website-

www.cwdc.org.uk

Please click on the link below for Common Induction guidance and booking form

Common Induction Guidance 2011-12.doc

Induction_BookingFormSept 11- june 2012.doc

Further training to support integrated working will be delivered from September 2010. If you have any queries about this training and the Common Induction training please contact pat_mangan@bathnes.gov.uk or phone on 01225 395158.

The national guidance on information sharing is available on this link.

Further information on progress with Integrated Working can be found on the public website