Roles and Responsibilities
A Roles & Responsibilities Working Group was set up
to:
- Clarify the future roles and
responsibilities of workers in the sector by
considering how they might evolve, in the light of
policy developments,
- to ensure that the workforce
continues to meet the needs of children in the
future.
- Report on these matters to the
Steering Group,
- to inform the work programme for
the Review.
There were a number of key questions that this group
tried to answer and which influence the other working
groups of the Review.
- What is the policy framework
within which services are operating?
- What is it that children (and
parents) need from early education & childcare
services?
- What is it that workers
currently do?
- How are the jobs changing [How do
jobs need to change?] and what does this mean for the
roles and responsibilities of workers in the
future?
- What does this mean for
management and supervision?
- How will advancements in
Information & Communication Technology affect the
provision of services?
Membership of this working group is:
| Frances
Scott | Scottish Social
Services Council
(Chair) | Carol
Ball | UNISON | Cllr Charles
Gray | North
Lanarkshire Council
(representing
CoSLA) | Peter
Hay | Aberdeenshire
Council (representing
CoSLA) | Christine
Riach | Dundee City
Education
Department | Rosemary
Milne | One Stop
Childcare | Barbara
Thomas | Representing
Parents' Views | Fiona
Bennett | Barnardos |
Meetings of this working group took
place on 27 August 2004, 14 September 2004
and 14 October 2004. The minutes of the
meetings can be accessed below.
1st Roles and Responsibilities Meeting
- 27 August 2004
2nd Roles and Responsibilities Meeting
- 14 September 2004
3rd Roles and Responsibilities Meeting
- 14 October 2004 The group produced a
Framework that shows the future, high
level, roles and responsibilities of
workers in the sector. It is not a generic
job description and it will be up to
individual employers to interpret which
tools their staff should use to meet these
responsibilities. The Framework is based on the
Ministerial Vision for Children and Young
People (all children should be Safe,
Nurtured, Healthy, Achieving, Active,
Included, Respected & Responsible) and
uses the worker categories that will be
used the Scottish Social Services Council
for registration of the workforce from 2006
(Support Worker / Practitioner / Lead
Practitioner, Manager). |