Children, young people and families
Give your team
Your next leader is already on the rota
Your Growth and Skills Levy can qualify the people you already have, and bring in new ones straight from school or from another career. It works the same way whether you run a children's home, a family support service, or a local authority team.
Together, let's goachievement rate across our children, young people and families programmes
What children's services leaders tell us, and what's possible
An apprenticeship turns what someone already does well into a qualification and a route to the next role, without taking them off the work.
People stay where they can see a future.
A service known for growing its people becomes the one people want to join, including career changers with real life experience behind them.
development that's reviewed every few weeks has built the answer as it went.
What your levy covers, in your numbers
Tell us how many staff you want to develop, what they earn, and how many leave in a year. You'll see what the Growth and Skills Levy would cover for your team, and what keeping people could be worth. No email address needed.
Illustrative estimate, sector preselected. Final funding depends on eligibility, funding bands and start date — we confirm your figures before you commit.
Programme finder
Each programme suits someone already on your team and someone joining you new. Your people learn it, apply it with the families they support, then reflect on what happened and why. That last part will feel familiar, and it's where the growth is.
Child development, trauma-informed practice, safeguarding, and the law around children and families.
Build relationships with young people and families, assess need, and plan support.
Reflect on every relationship, and stay steady and consistent for children who haven't had much of either.
Leadership, regulation, and quality assurance in children's services.
Lead a team, manage practice, and prepare the service for inspection.
Lead reflective supervision, and build a culture where staff stay and children feel safe.
Early help, family support approaches, and multi-agency working.
Work with families early, alongside schools and health partners.
Reflect with families on what's changing, and be the consistent professional they can rely on.
Your caseworkers sit where education, health, and care meet, and every plan shapes a child's next few years. This route builds the understanding behind the paperwork, so plans are clearer and families feel heard. It suits experienced caseworkers and people new to the role, and your council's levy funds it.
The SEND framework, the EHCP process, and how education, health, and care services work together.
Gather advice, work alongside families and schools, and draft plans that are clear and centred on the child.
Reflect on each case, and keep the family's voice at the heart of every plan.
Three things you can hold us to
Bringing a provider into your service puts your name on the decision. We want it to be one you're glad you made, so here's what you can hold us to.
Reviews scheduled every four weeks, not squeezed between shifts.
You are copied into the correspondence, so you can see where each member of staff is without asking us or asking them.
Not a rota, not a handover.
In their words
We would schedule to meet every four weeks. Also being copied into emails to them, if there was an issue. This enabled me to get a true account and visual of where each staff member was on their journey.
I have been working as a family practitioner for eight years and have had training and lots of experience but no formal qualification. I am more confident in supporting families as a result of this course.
Nicola, for the whole programme
Nicola has worked with children's homes, family support services, and local authority teams since [VERIFY]. She answers, and she stays with you for the whole programme.
Chat to NicolaQuestions children's services leaders actually ask
Both. Someone already with you can grow into the next role, and someone leaving school or changing career can start with you on the same programme. We check eligibility before you commit. [VERIFY: current rules, hiring incentives, and whether we help with recruitment]
Yes, through the EHCP route of the early intervention practitioner programme, for experienced caseworkers and people new to the role. [VERIFY eligibility for existing caseworkers]
Reviews are scheduled four weeks ahead. Off-the-job hours are agreed in writing before anyone starts.
There's a one-to-one before day one, so support is in place from the start rather than after something goes wrong.
Yes. [VERIFY any group minimum or maximum]
We answer this honestly and in full with you directly. [VERIFY: final wording — answer narrowly, and do not claim it discharges a regulatory requirement it does not discharge.]
We handle this case by case with you. [VERIFY: leadership decision]