Children's Workforce Strategy
This document sets out a blueprint for the development of the children’s workforce in Richmond upon Thames over the next twelve years: the Children’s Workforce Strategy (CWS). It contains:
- Our plans for recruiting and retaining experienced staff in the workforce in a co-ordinated and joined up way;
- Our work on a common induction programme for the children’s workforce;
- The development of the Common Assessment Framework and how we will ensure that the children’s workforce has the skills and knowledge to undertake assessments;
- Our plans for developing shared learning programmes for the children’s workforce;
- How career progression in the children’s workforce will be better managed and much more flexible across departments;
- How we will be developing our future workforce leaders in the future;
- How we are going to ensure that our workforce respects children and young people;
- How we aim to promote trust in our children’s workforce from children and young people, families and carers;
- How the plans for children’s services across Richmond upon Thames are supported by developing the workforce, the introduction of new roles and new ways of working.
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