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Enhancing Workforce Strategy: Insights from CWDC's Research Programme

This document outlines the CWDC Research Programme led by Development Manager Lisa Baldwin. It details the research strategy, governance, key projects, and presenting challenges in children and young people's workforce development. It highlights successful projects like the Local Integrated Workforce Strategies (LIWS) and emphasizes the prioritization of research objectives, including ethics, data protection, and dissemination of findings. The program aims to address data gaps, evaluate social worker effectiveness, and support continuous improvement in the children's social care workforce.

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Enhancing Workforce Strategy: Insights from CWDC's Research Programme

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  1. CWDC Research Programme Lisa Baldwin Development Manager – Workforce Data

  2. Introduction • CWDC research programme • Strategy • Governance • Key projects & challenges • Example of a recent project (LIWS) • Lessons learnt / next steps

  3. Research Strategy • Published strategy www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/research • Sets out CWDC’s research objectives and priorities: • How priority issues will be identified • What research will be conducted / supported • How research will be conducted • How research findings are disseminated

  4. Research Governance • Governance policy • Research ethics • Approval • Consent • Data: collection, use & protection • Research Advisory Group • Peer review

  5. Key Projects • Large evaluations: • Social Work Remodelling • Newly Qualified Social Workers • Graduate Leader Fund • Rolling programme of smaller research projects: • Practitioner Led Research • Team Around the Child • State of the Children’s Social Care Workforce • Literature reviews

  6. Challenges • Data gaps • Little trend data / benchmarking • CWDC footprint vs one children’s workforce • Policy development (faster than evaluation) • GLF • Social work & youth workforce

  7. An Example…. Analysis of Local Integrated Workforce Strategies • Commissioned June 2008 • CfBT Education Trust Ltd • Final report published Spring 2009

  8. Group discussion • Key findings from analysis of Local Integrated Workforce Strategies • Requirements of 2020 Children and Young People’s Workforce Strategy (DCSF) • Next steps?

  9. www.cwdcouncil.org.uk

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