Workforce Development

Registration and refreshments

Opening remarks from the Chair

Principles, values and legislation: ensuring your organisation is fit for 2020

• Clarifying the vision for the future of children’s services workforce
• Understanding how political policies may affect funding for professional development initiatives
• Gaining insight into innovation at a local level and progress being made nationally
• Realising the vision of creating a world class workforce for children, young people and families
• Benefiting from the Young People's Workforce Reform Programme

The Integrated Qualifications Framework

• Discover how the Integrated Qualification Framework is taking shape and put any questions and concerns to an expert

Question and answer session

Panel Discussion: Making one integrated children’s workforce a reality - Partnership working across local government, education, health and social care

• Sharing information and communicating across your area
• Coordinating common assessments
• Overcoming challenges of working across a rural setting 
• Delivering needs analysis across your area and using this information to inform your strategy
• Benefiting from streamlined services and efficiencies across the area

Morning refreshments

Addressing cultural change within children’s services

• Identifying organisations cultural barriers to integration and change and the steps needed to overcome problem areas
• Engaging with employees to promote a positive learning environment  
• Valuing and retaining your workforce and professionalising roles within children’s services
• Working towards outcomes rather than a process driven approach

Question and answer session

Lunch

Ensuring PCTs are meeting the safeguarding statutory requirements: A Strategic health audit review of the evidence

• Meeting the safeguarding statutory requirements to improve local outcomes
• Ensuring your trust’s desired outcomes for local children and young people are clearly defined and consistent with other local strategies
• Delivering better outcomes for children and young people through robust performance management frameworks

Delivering effective multi agency training – Case Study

• Developing a common induction, core competencies and integrated learning and development pathways
• Recognising and retaining the differing needs of the distinct professions whilst benefiting from a shared vision across the area
• Inspiring innovation and creativity to make a difference with limited funding 
• Engaging with the wider workforce to maintain a minimum standards of service for all those in contact with children

Question and answer session

Afternoon refreshments

Increasing staff engagement across children’s services

• Harnessing full potential across the children’s services workforce
• Understanding key behaviours for developing motivation and engagement 
• Developing a framework to align and support the integration of engagement behaviours within children’s services strategy

Safe Guarding Children: Recruiting and retaining high quality staff - workshop

• Attend this interactive workshop and discover how you are able to attract, support and develop staff within your organisation. Exploring the issues around safe guarding children, looking at safer recruitment, vetting and barring. It will be a chance for you to share issues and experiences with you peers, whilst receiving expert guidance on how the tackle the challenges that you are facing. 

Chairs closing remarks and close of conference