Workforce Development in Norfolk

NYA November 2007

Where are we?

Workforce Development is a work stream in the Children and Young people’s Plan

Part of LSCB Part of Chamber of Commerce Part of Voluntary Sector Forum Part of East Anglia HEI partnership

What do we want in Norfolk?

A competent, confident and safe workforce A workforce people desire to be part of A well led and managed workforce A workforce service users trust

How are we doing this?

Competent– Audit our job descriptions – Audit our service on qualifications– Offer qualifications – level 2 – PHD– Rewrite jds to reflect in appraisals– 360 feedback– Warner and safer recruitment– Working in partnership– Strength based

How are we doing this?

Capable– Roll out programme concerning solution focus,

strength based programme– Wellbeing – restorative approaches– Performance management– Safer recruitment– Values, competencies– Sharing best practice

How are we doing this?

Safe– Working in collaboration with LSCB– Safer recruitment and Warner interviews– Service users and empowerment– Concept and perception of safe– Contracts and commitment statements– Systems that share knowledge

How are we doing this?

Well led and managed– New standards of Investors in People– Influenced the University of east Anglia to work in

partnership to create a Master’s degree in leadership and management of the social, educational and health sector

– Corporate leadership programme– Master classes– Sharing management responsibilities

What does this mean?

We know what we want and we have to influence providers such as HEI’s to develop learning solutions for our future workers

Create traineeships/apprenticeships for young people to gain a profession in Norfolk

Work in partnership with training schools Integrated qualification framework -

Qualifications

City College – bac UEA – credit modules for all workers of the

children’s workforce not just social care Evidence based Quality assured

What will Norfolk look like by 2010

Diverse Multi lingual Strong Competent A service for children, not a Children’s

service