To help you navigate this tricky landscape of long organisation names and TLAs (three letter acronyms) we have collected together a few of the terms you may have come across in relation to the children's workforce and listed what they stand for
BASW |
British Association of Social Workers |
BTEC |
Business and Technology Education Council |
CACHE |
Council Awards in Children's Care and Education |
CAF |
Common Assessment Framework |
CAFCASS |
Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service |
CAMHS |
Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services |
CCLD |
Children's Care Learning and Development |
CRE |
Commission for Racial Equality |
CWDC |
Children's Workforce Development Council |
CWN |
Children's Workforce Network |
CYP |
Children and young people |
DCS |
Director of Children's Services |
EWO |
Education Welfare Officer |
EWS |
Education Welfare Service |
EY |
Early Years |
EYFS |
Early Years Foundation Stage |
GSCC |
General Social Care Council |
LDSS |
Learning and Development Support Services |
MAT |
Multi-agency Team |
NASWE |
National Association of Social Workers in Education |
NCFE |
National Council for Further Education |
NMDS-SC |
National Minimum Data Set - Social Care |
Ofsted |
Office for Standards in Education |
PLA |
Pre-school Learning Association |
PSA |
Parenting Support Adviser |
SCIE |
Social Care Institute for Excellence |
SfC |
Skills for Care |
SfCD |
Skills for Care and Development |
SfH |
Skills for Health |
TAC |
Team around the Child |
YP |
Young Person |