30/08/2008
This site contains details of the consultation on the Children and Young People’s Workforce Development Strategy for Wales, and on the Common Core of Skills Knowledge and Understanding for the Children and Young People Workforce. This work has been developed by the Children and Young People‘s Workforce Development Network. This was done on behalf of the Department for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills (DCELLS) of the Welsh Assembly Government (Children's and Young People Strategy Division). Its content is likely to be of great importance to that part of the Health Sector workforce, NHS, Independent and third Sector that provides services to children and young people.
The message from the Minister for Children, Education, Lifelong Learning and Skills notes the importance of the Network’s role. It will ensure that the people working with Children and Young People have the best possible training, qualifications, support and advice. It will also be a means to ensure that the workforce is properly equipped to deliver the cross-cutting approach to children and young people’s services in Wales envisaged in the Children Act 2004.
The Workforce Development Strategy offers methods which will improve and strengthen the workforce across professions to the benefit of Children and Young People and their families, and this consultation is an important step in moving this work forward.
The Strategy and the Common Core aim to reflect a common set of values rooted in a commitment to the realisation of children’s rights and to achieve more effective and integrated service delivery. The Common Core will also be a means to establishing a shared language and understanding across different parts of the workforce thus improving practice.
Your responses to these documents will be key to the success of the next stage of the work.
We would ask therefore for your co-operation in ensuring that this consultation reaches professionals, practitioners, managers, leaders, representative bodies and also children and young people and their families who are in receipt of your services. We would like you to take part in this consultation firstly by reading the main document and then making comments and giving feedback by completing the two questionnaires below.
The closing date for the consultation is the 17th October 2008 and all completed questionnaires should be returned to Walesconsultation@skillsforhealth.org.uk
If you know of colleagues or organisations who would like to contribute to this exercise then please forward this web link on to them. We would also encourage you to attend one of the two consultation events the Network will be facilitating on:
17th September – South Wales
25th September – North Wales
More details of the events are available from sandie.grieve@ccwales.org.uk.
Thank you for your help in taking this work forward, we look forward to seeing you at these events and receiving your response.
Related documents
Workforce Development Strategy and Common Core July 08 - Welsh
Workforce Development Strategy and Common Core - July 08 - English
Workforce Development Strategy questionnaire - Welsh
Workforce Development Strategy questionnaire- English
Common Core Questionnaire English
Common Core Questionnaire Welsh
Maria Whittaker
Director for Wales
Skills for Health
Stephen Griffiths
Interim Director Workforce Development
National Leadership and Innovations Agency for Healthcare
