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Training the workforce
This section will provide information and resources to help you train and support practitioners so that they are able to offer parents the kind of high-quality and responsive support that will make a difference to children's early learning experiences.
Work with parents in the early years is carried out by a diverse and evolving workforce. New roles have emerged in recent years, such as family outreach workers, parent support advisers and early learning mentors, working alongside well-established roles such as health visitors. Many within the children's workforce now have parent involvement as part of their role, although their primary expertise lies in work with children.
A growth in childminding means that childminders are now one of the largest groups of practitioners providing home-based childcare, play, learning and family support.
There has also been an increase in volunteer roles such as community mothers and parent buddies, in recognition of the fact that peer-based support is more successful in reaching certain groups of parents.
In response to the need for a skilled and qualified workforce, the Children's Workforce Development Council has launched an overarching qualification of Early Years Professional.
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