Children's Workforce Strategy Consultation
- Published: 21 June 2005
The Green Paper, Every child matters, recognised the crucial importance of the children's workforce to improving outcomes for children and young people.
The Children's Workforce Strategy sets out the Government's vision of a world-class children's workforce which is increasingly competent and confident, inspiring trust and respect from parents and carers as well as from children and young people themselves. The document sets out four major strategic challenges: to recruit more high quality staff into the children's workforce; to retain people in the workforce including by offering better development and career progression; to strengthen inter-agency and multi-disciplinary working; and to promote stronger leadership and management.
The strategy builds on work already in hand and on existing good practice. It puts forward out proposals to tackle each of the strategic challenges, with action nationally and locally. It is consultative and seeks to launch a wide debate that will, along with emerging good practice, inform the further development of the strategy over time.Click here to go to the DfES article and downloadable documents
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Early Years Regulations
- Published: 20 June 2005
We are planning to introduce, in October 2005, six sets of regulations relating to the provision of nursery education and under 8s day care and childminding.
Two of these sets of regulations deal with Ofsted inspection arrangements, replacing existing regulations.
A further set of regulations will amend the existing national standards regulations, including new requirements on complaints handling, and enabling the publication of an addendum to the current national standards documents. A draft of this addendum is also available for comment.
Finally, three sets of regulations are about the suitability of people who wish to be involved in registered childcare, including who should be automatically disqualified from registration. The disqualification regulations will replace existing regulations.
This consultation focuses on the inspection regulations. The other regulations were the subject of consultation last year, and subsequent changes reflect the results of that consultation and more recent legislation in the Children Act 2004.
We have prepared partial assessments of the impact of these regulations and these documents are also available for comment.
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