Welcome to the Children’s Workforce pages.
What we do
The Children's Workforce section supports workforce planning and development across the children's workforce. This is everyone working in services for children, young people or families, including early years and play, schools, children's social care, health, sport and leisure and youth work. Some services are statutory (i.e. public sector) while others are private, voluntary or independent (PVI).
These are the four priorities for the children's workforce in Bristol :
- Recruit effectively
- Develop and retain people
- Strengthen multi-disciplinary working and develop new roles
- Promote strong leadership and management
You can find more information on our aims, priorities and current work in the ‘Bristol Children's Workforce Strategy'. These are informed by the national agenda and priorities, as set out in The Children's Plan and ‘Building Brighter Futures: Next Steps for the Children's Workforce'.
The Bristol Children's Workforce Partnership Forum is responsible for implementing the Workforce Strategy. This is a multi-agency group which meets quarterly. Please see the link on the right for further information and copies of papers.
Training and development opportunities see links on this page
- Practice learning : students on social work degrees must spend at least 200 assessed days in work settings. The Children's Workforce section arranges student placements in statutory and PVI children's settings across Bristol. We also run training for people working in these settings who would like to be Practice Assessors.
- Foster carers : the Family Placement team provide training and support to foster carers, kinship carers and family link carers. For further information please follow the link on the left or contact Richard Dixon or Joyce Thorpe in the Family Placement Team (Tel: 0117 95 58231).
- Social work students : these pages contain information on local and national bursaries and retainer schemes.
- School-based staff : have access to the Bristol Continuing Professional Development programme.
- Early years employees : have access to training and development provided by the CYPS Early Years and Childcare service.
- CYPS employees : information on internal training and development opportunities is available on the Council's intranet The Source
Contact us
Fran Havard
Strategy Leader, Children's Workforce
cypsworkforcedev@bristol.gov.uk
0117 35 32504