Children's Workforce Development Council Corporate Plan April 2008 - March 2011 and Business Plan 2008 - 2009

Introduction

We have achieved a great deal in our first three years. We have done this with the support and engagement of all our partners, particularly children, young people and families. They inform and shape all we do, and we are proud of what we have achieved with their help.

We now need to build on our strong foundations as we grow and change to meet the challenges ahead. This plan sets out a clear strategy and actions for the next three years. It responds to the needs of our employers and their workforce as well as key strategic partners, including Government and CWN.

What's in the plan?

The plan sets out our mission, strategy and activity. It explains:

• The development of our strategy including feedback from key partners
• Our key drivers and strategic objectives
• Our achievements in 2007-08
• Our detailed business plan and funding for 2008-09
• Our approach to performance management in 2008-09 and beyond.

Our vision

Our vision is that we will create a world-class workforce for children, young people and families that is:

• inclusive
• built on strong partnerships, and
  
• focussed on excellence.

Our strategic objectives for 2008 - 11 are to:

• drive forward workforce reform across children's services, and
  
• be a proactive, excellent sector skills body.

We will do this by:

• improving the lives of children and young people, their families and carers by ensuring that all people working with them have the best possible training, qualifications, support and advice
• helping the children and young people's workforce to work together better so that the child is at the centre of all services, and
  
• being the influential voice of employers and the workforce that is recognised by national and local government and key partners.

To help us achieve this our organisation will, over the next three years:

• model what we expect of others
• become even more effective
• become more efficient and improve our financial management system, and
  
• be made up of an excellent, diverse and skilled workforce.

The strategy map below explains how this fits together and how we will structure our activity to deliver this enhanced and demanding agenda.

CWDC Business Plan for 2008 - 2009

Annex 1 of the corporate plan sets out our business plan for 2008-09. It contains the priorities we have identified linked to our strategic objectives.

It also highlights which parts of the children's workforce are supported by each activity and gives clear outcomes and products (deliverables) for each area of our work.