Project 5: Supporting Recruitment and Retention Across the Children’s Social Care Workforce
Overview
Aware of the critical challenges facing the children’s social care workforce currently, we are engaged in two pieces of work to try and support the sector, starting with residential care, but opening out to other areas as we progress.
1. Workforce Campaign
GMCA are partnering with the Children’s Homes Association (CHA) to create a regional marketing campaign to support recruitment to and retention within residential care homes.
It will support GM LAs and Independent Sector Providers that have workforce vacancies in their Homes or are in the process of setting up new ones so that more capacity can be made available to improve sufficiency and access to high quality care for our children and young people.
2. Skills Bootcamp – Children’s Residential
Our ambition is to pilot the very first Skills Bootcamp for Children’s Residential Care in the UK. We are currently procuring a Training Provider and aim to support around 100 individuals across GM to learn more about children’s residential care, receive training and ultimately be partnered with organisations interested in offering them employment opportunities in their services.
Progress
Both of these projects are in the early stages. Further updates will be provided in due course.