National Workforce Development Strategy

2020 Children & Young People's Workforce Strategy

In December 2008 the Government published the 2020 Children and Young People's Workforce Strategy. This set out the Government's vision that everyone who works with children and young people should be:

  • ambitious for every child and young person
  • excellent in their practice
  • committed to partnership and integrated working
  • respected and valued as professionals.

Whatever their role, the aim is to ensure that members of the workforce have the skills and knowledge to do the best job they possibly can to help children and young people develop and succeed across all the outcomes which underpin Every Child Matters: being safe, staying healthy, enjoying and achieving, making a positive contribution and achieving economic well-being.

The strategy sets out how the Government will work with partners, and people in the workforce, to ensure that every part of the children and young people's workforce achieves this vision.

For further details, please click on the following link:

2020 Children & Young People's Workforce Development Strategy [external link]