1. Matt Buttery, Family Matters Institute & Lucy Bailey, HCTP
Workforce Reform
Matt Buttery, Family Matters Institute
&
Lucy Bailey, HCTP

2. Objectives of this workshop :
Discuss the impact of workforce development on your organisation
Contribute to the development of the HCTP Workforce Development Action Plan

3. Why workforce…..?

4. Who is in the Children’s Workforce?
Core Children’s Workforce = People who work or volunteer with children, young people and their families, or are responsible for their outcomes all the time
Wider Children’s Workforce = People who work or volunteer with children, young people and/or their families part of the time, or are responsible for their outcomes as part of their jobs.

5. Hertfordshire Context
Children's workforce of around 25,000
2 Primary Care Trusts
535 Schools
15 Nursery schools
405 Primary schools
82 Secondary schools
25 Special schools
8 Education Support Centres

6. Integrated Working Integrated Front-Line Service Delivery
Integrated Processes and Tools
Information Sharing Guidance
Common Assessment Framework
Lead Professional
Contact
Point
Multi-agency toolkit
Service Directory
Children Missing Education
Integrated
Front-Line
Service
Delivery
Improved outcomes:
Be Healthy
Stay safe
Enjoy and achieve
Make a positive contribution
Achieve economic well-being
Children’s
Centres
Extended Schools
Integrated working:
practitioners enabled and encouraged to work together in more integrated front-line services,
built around the needs of children and young people
using common processes which are designed to create and underpin joint working.
Youth Connexions
Safeguarding
Children’s health
NSF
Youth crime
Reduction

7. Introducing ….. The One Children’s Workforce Framework and Tool

8. What is the One Children’s Workforce Framework?
A framework which describes what a reformed workforce looks like at local level
A rainbow with 7 arcs based around the Every Child Matters Outcomes which describe the main elements of workforce reform
Identifies what success looks like from the perspectives of a child, a team, a service and a children’s trust

9. The Framework

10. Shared identity, purpose and vision
For example…
Shared identity, purpose and vision
Characteristics of a fragmented workforce:
Workforce identity often based on occupational groups.
Presence of these separate identities and lack of a coherent vision impedes change.
Characteristics of a reformed workforce:
Shared identity and a shared vision of better services for children.
Organisational changes are led and managed within a strong sense of purpose.

11. How will we assess where we are now and what will we do with it?
Collect evidence - use events like today to ask some key questions that will feed into the tool
Pilot using the tool between now and end of December
Use results/reports from the tool to inform local planning

12. We are going to work together to complete the questionnaire

13. Useful Weblinks
HCTP structure and who's who :
Integrated practice - working together to help children and families :  
Integrated practice E Bulletins :
Integrated practice training and awareness including local Networks for integrated working :
Training available from Youth Connexions :
Learning and development opportunities from Herts County Council :
Family Information Service
Useful Contacts
Shaddy Mansouri-Marsh, Workforce Development Project Officer, Dacorum CVS Tel: