Young People's Workforce Reform Programme

Why was the programme introduced?

The young people's workforce has shown considerable commitment and versatility over the years, providing much needed services to young people and their families across England. 

The programme was introduced in 2008 to develop a range of products to offer further support to the workforce in the following areas:

• Disparities in training, qualifications and outcomes across the young people's workforce.
• Concerns over medium term recruitment, retention and job mobility;
• Voluntary and community sector training needed to be spread more widely and where possible coordinated with statutory and private sector training.
• Integrated youth support services leaders and managers required specific training to equip them for the challenges of their wider roles;
• Workforce data overall being patchy, inconsistent and unspecific.
• A workforce that would benefit from greater cohesion and overall sense of identity.  

A number of projects were put into place to help overcome these issues:

• Leadership and management training and development for leaders and managers.
• Capacity building in the voluntary and community sector including the provision of up to 25,000 training places through the Progress project
• The development of a common platform of skills and competences to include:
  - A Skills Development Framework.
  - Apprenticeship frameworks for integrated youth support at
    levels 2 and 3.
  - A Foundation Degree framework for integrated youth support.
  - Funding integrated workforce development in nine areas.
•  A State of the young people’s workforce report.

Further information

If you would like further information please email us on youngpeoplesworkforce@cwdcouncil.org.uk.