Proposed structure for the Children and Young People's Workforce ...

2010- Workforce Strategy Draft• Provides for a statutory framework for apprenticeships and creates a right to anapprenticeship for suitably qualified 16-18 year olds• Introduces a right for employees to request time away from their duties to undertaketraining, and places a corresponding duty on employers to consider such requestsseriously and to be able to refuse them only for specified business reasons• Dissolves the Learning and Skills Council• Transfers the responsibility for funding education and training for 16-18-year-olds tolocal authorities• Makes provisions with respect to the education of offenders• Creates the Young Person’s Learning Agency, the Skills Funding Agency, a newregulatory body for qualifications (Ofqual), and a new agency to carry out the nonregulatoryfunctions currently performed by the Qualifications and CurriculumAuthority• Strengthens the accountability of children’s services• Amends intervention powers in respect of schools which are causing concern• Establishes a new parental complaints service• Changes the school inspection arrangements• Creates a new negotiating body for pay and conditions for school support staff• Makes provisions in respect of pupil and student behaviour.xii.Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA)The Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA) was created in 2008 under the SafeguardingVulnerable Groups Act 2006 to help prevent unsuitable people from working with childrenand vulnerable adults. The Act introduces the idea of “Regulated Activities” involving contactwith children or vulnerable adults. These can be a special type of activity, any activity in aspecial place (for example a nursery, school or children’s home), or holding a special position(for example teaching, care or supervision). When the Act is fully implemented, an individualwill have to be ISA-registered to undertake regulated activity and a barred individual will notbe allowed to undertake a regulated activity. It will be the responsibility of an employer tocheck that a prospective employee who is in a regulated activity is ISA-registered and notbarred. No distinction is made between paid and voluntary workxiii.Workforce DataThe National Minimum Data Set – Social Care (NMDS-SC)Since 2006 Skills for Care have been gathering information about the social care workforceand the services that are provided. This data collection is providing a clearer picture of theshape and skills of the social care sector which will inform government policy and funding.The NMDS-SC includes information on both organisations and individual employees,addressing numbers, demographics, training and recruitment. Although the NMDS-SC isaimed primarily at social care employers, it is designed to be suitable for some aspects of thewider children's workforce.School workforce censusThe School Workforce Census collects comprehensive data on all Teachers and SupportStaff. A single database will strengthen data security and improve the accuracy of dataanalysis for schools, local authorities and the DCSF.The census is also intended as a replacement for five existing returns: 618G, SecondarySchool Curriculum and Staffing Survey (SSCSS), Survey of Teachers' Pay (OME), Survey ofTeacher Resignations and Recruitment (NEOST) and the workforce sections of the ASC/SLASC/ PLASC returns.Version 2.6 41