Completed projects and reports

Projects which have been either commissioned or conducted by CWDC’s research team 2007 - 2011.

Please click on the links below to take you to the relevant page. The reports are listed in date order with the most recent at the top.

Early Years

• Research into the composition, needs and aspirations of the nanny workforce in England (October 2009)
• Early Years Professional Status (EYPS) research (June 2009)

Integrated Working

• Use of Team Around the Child (TAC) model for the 11-14 year age group (November 2009)
• Analysis of local integrated workforce strategies (January 2009)
• National evaluation of integrated working (June 2008)

Parents and Families

• Review of the children's outreach workforce. (September 2009)

Social Care

• Creating relevant and sustainable employment opportunities for looked after children in the North West  (September 2009)
• Understanding the children's social care workforce (September 2009)
• State of the children's social care workforce (May 2008)

Social Work

• The graduate recruitment scheme: a review of the first cohort (October 2011)
• Evaluation of the CWDC National Pilot Peer Support Programme (October 2011)
• Evaluation of the newly qualified social worker programme (October 2011)
• Return to social work evaluation (October 2011)
• A summative report on the qualitative evaluation of the eleven remodelling social work pilots 2008-11 (September 2011)
• Evaluation of CWDC's support to front line managers project (September 2011)
• Children's views and experiences of their contact with social workers: A focused review of the evidence (June 2010)
• Creating relevant and sustainable employment opportunities for looked after children in the North West  (September 2009)
• Consultations with newly qualified social workers, employers and those in higher education (January 2009)
• Cross Sector scoping study of family support workers in the children's workforce (January 2008)

Volunteers

• Investigating the training needs of volunteers in the children's workforce (February 2011)
• Volunteers in the children's workforce (March 2009)

Wider Children's Workforce

• Scoping study to assess how research on workforce issues is used to evidence practice in the field (March 2011)
• Occupational and functional mapping of the children's workforce in England (June 2009)
• Travellers, Irish Travellers, Gypsies, Roma and Showpeople (June 2008)
• Practitioner-led research (PLR) (2007-2010)

Workforce Data

• Review of the data on the state of the children and young people's workforce (April 2011)
• State of the children's social care workforce (May 2008)

Youth

• Evaluation of the Young People's Workforce Reform Programme (July 2011)