Your induction standards/procedures

[tutu]

all new staff have to be put through the new CWDC induction programme, with a workbook etc. has this happened to you and how have you found it? if you are a manager do you know about it and are you doing it??? just wondering as i have a forum next week where it will be discussed

[dkredbaron]

Do you have a link or more info i have not been sent anything about this yet.we do do inductions with all staff and volunteers but would be good to know more.

[tutu]

the standards are now mandatory in the children's social care workforce, scary that few of us know about it! these people make wonderful plans!
http://www.cwdcouncil.org.uk/induction-standards

[cabin]

I came across it by chance a few weeks ago - and my main thought was 'who is going to pay for this to become standard practise !?
I haven't looked at the link to refresh myself, but I did think it was a lenghy document for pre-schools etc. Can you imagine if you wanted to print out a hard-copy for all staff?.
i didn't realise it was intended to become mandatory - I just thought it had some good info which we could adapt to suit ourselves!!
Now I'll have to have a good read-up.

[cabin]

.........and now I've had a quick refresh, the one thing that stands out is-
Many of these statements (from contents page) are questions that would have been asked at interview! And if they didn't know the answers then - they prob wouldn't get the job in the first place!!!

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[tutu]

Originally Posted by cabin

.........and now I've had a quick refresh, the one thing that stands out is-
Many of these statements (from contents page) are questions that would have been asked at interview! And if they didn't know the answers then - they prob wouldn't get the job in the first place!!!

xxx

exactly! you can order hard copies for free i do believe get a good amount if you can they will prob run out. Someone in our LA is working out the details for our registered providers but god knows how it is going to be implemented. met with the cwdc yesterday and they were surprised we weren't all doing it WELL thats what happens when you work in an office making great decisions and not actually in the children's workforce!

[cabin]

My postman is going to love me then! Every thing has to come to my home address!

Who has responsibilty for looking after them? Are they kept at the setting? Will we need to build an exention?
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[tutu]

i am sure our copy is to be kept in our lockable cabinet !! and the staff to keep their own.

[Ruthierhyme]

Induction standard materials page from cwdc - workbook containing the 7 standards and guidance pdf

CWN's induction booklet, wheel and email for ordering hard copies.

and finally wow .. as mandatory this online information is scarily inaccessible and how far reaching.

Does anyone know if there are plans to support leaders with access to verifiers?

[tutu]

the cwdc has "lead practitioners"in each area. took me three days to find ours who was as much use as a chocolate fireguard. shes a consultant getting paid a fortune and hasnt got a ****** clue! asked at our manager forum yesterday who had heard about this and not one out of 27 had. heyho!