Manchester Alliance for Community Care

Workforce Development

There is now a recognition in the public sector that there are a lot of people who work with children young people and families who are part of the voluntary and community sector's workforce. One of the priorities of the Every Child Matters drive to improve outcomes is about ensuring the people delivering services are properly trained, recruited and developed.

In Manchester, Voluntary Youth Manchester takes a lead on the workforce agenda for the children, young people and families voluntary sector, working with the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Manchester City Council Learning and Development Unit.

During 2008, VYM have been working to develop a profile of the local children, young people and families voluntary sector workforce. The report on their findings is available to download here:

A Profile of the Voluntary, Community and Faith Sector Children and Young People's Workforce in Manchester (Word Document)

Also in development is the Manchester Children's Workforce Strategy. This covers the public, private and voluntary sectors and there is now (November 2008) an opportunity to give feedback on the latest draft. It can be downloaded below.

Manchester Children's Workforce Development Strategy - Draft 5.

Please feed your comments back to Ross Grant at Voluntary Youth Manchester.
Email: voluntaryyouthmanchester@googlemail.com
Telephone: 0161 832 0169

Resources

NCVCCO and Homestart produced "A Beginners Guide to Children and Families Workforce Development" for individuals and organisations that are uncertain about what 'workforce development' means in relation to children's services. This booklet introduces the main features of the children's workforce development agenda and explains why these are important. It concentrates on the basics but includes information about where to go to find out more. Download the report from NCCVO (pdf)
Skills for Care, Skills for Health and Children’s Workforce Development Council (CWDC) have produced a workforce development funding guide aimed at employers in the social care and health sector. Click here to download a copy (word).

Link: Children's Workforce Development Council

Link: North West regional update - August 2008

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