Your Workforce: Their Future - Derby 28th Feb

Your Workforce: Their Future

Children’s Workforce Development Council and Children England are delighted to be working together to support the voluntary and community sector that works with children and young people sector with this informative regional seminar.

The seminar will focus on key areas identified as current workforce priorities within the sector:

Working Together, Munro and integrated working – the implications for the VCS

The session will help colleagues and the sector to reflect on and amplify its current experience, it will provide the opportunity to hear about emerging practice and use Localism as its backdrop to explore the challenges and opportunities for the sector of the continuing development of multi agency approaches as provision and efficiency becomes focused towards a community or district level. The session will also explore the fuller implications for the sector of the Munro review and look at some of the development that could help the sector to further improve its ability to respond to the challenge of reducing resources and growing demand. The session aims to empower delegates to participate and contribute to local arrangements to protect children and young people and provide early help.

Leadership and management for all in the children’s workforce

The session will offer the opportunity to hear about and engage with the development of leadership and management across Children’s services with colleagues from the National College of School Leadership but critically to consider how the sector can support itself at a critical juncture to develop its own continuous improvement by adapting existing peer learning methodology, building both leadership skills and a mechanism by which the sector can respond to external demand for improved service quality and its own objectives for community empowerment.

Higher level Skills: The workforce challenge of a smaller state and greater need

This workshop is an opportunity for delegates to discuss the skills needs of the sector in response to its increased role in delivering targeted and specialist interventions with children, young people and families, both through commissioned services and as a result of reduced capacity within statutory services.

This will include reference to work with parents and families with multiple and complex needs, and the role of the sector in responding to the recommendations of the Munro Review of Child Protection.

These opportunities are funded by the Department for Education and although free to the voluntary and community sector, cancellations or no shows without reasonable (48 hrs) notice will be subject to an administration charge of £50.00  

Target Audience Frontline VCSE Organisations focused on, or interested in working with children and young people, VCSE infrastructure bodies especially with WSPP or Transforming Local Infrastructure Fund (TLI) leadership roles.