Workforce Reform

To ensure that children and young people in Cornwall achieve the five Every Child Matters outcomes, it is vital to have a children's workforce that is skilled, well-led and supported by effective, shared systems and processes. People in different parts of the workforce need to be able to work well together across institutional and professional boundaries, focused around the needs of the child and young person.

The Children's Trust is working with partners "to identify good practice, with a view to developing guidance and toolkits to support new ways of working locally as part of the Every Child Matters: Change for Children programme.  Such integrated working will take a variety of forms depending on the needs of children, young people and families locally - from virtual teams brought together around the needs of particular children through to fully co-located multi-agency teams made up of professionals from different disciplines and organisations."
Taken from the Department for Education Website

The Trust provides the strategic overview and governance for the workforce reform agenda.  This links directly to the workforce reform strategies of the Children's Services Authority and the other public sector agencies with a 'duty to co-operate' and to deliver the Every Child Matters Agenda, Youth Matters and Childcare and Early Years strategies. 

The Trust's workforce strategy is embedded in the Children and Young People's Plan.  This puts in place a series of measures designed to drive forward the development of an exemplar local children's workforce that can achieve the best possible outcomes for Cornwall's children and young people and their communities.

Children's Trust Workforce Strategy Group

The Children's Trust Board approved a proposed change in the structure of the Workforce Reform Steering Group in July 2010.  The Steering Group was replaced by the Children's Trust Workforce Strategy Group which will be responsible for taking the strategic lead in all aspects of the children's workforce reform agenda across Cornwall. 

View agendas and minutes of the Children's Trust Workforce Strategy Group

Children's Trust Workforce Implementation Group

The strategy group will also be supported by a new Children's Trust Workforce Implementation Group, which will be responsible for translating strategic priorities into action to achieve required outcomes. 

View the Implementation Plan 2011 – 2014.

Children's Trust Provider Forum

The Provider Forum will promote collaboration and co-operation across the sector and will help the Workforce Strategy Group and Workforce Implementation Group deliver against training and learning needs.