Ed Vainker, Managing Director of The Reach Foundation, highlights the people behind the places who are working to change the odds for young people in what the Children’s Commissioner for England recently called ‘the Childhood Lottery’.

Policy and Public Affairs Manager at NSPCC Eavan McKay responds to our Map of the Children’s Workforce, drawing on recent NSPCC research to highlight how Family Hubs can lead the way on a multi-agency safeguarding approach.

Elin de Zoete, Group Director, and Holly Waddell, Associate Director at ImpactEd Group, who partnered with the Centre to build the Map of the Children’s Workforce, reflect on the tasks and tensions of counting the children’s workforce.

What can we know about the workforce of professionals supporting babies, children and young people? Ned Younger, Managing Director of the Centre for the Children’s Workforce, introduces our Map of the Children’s Workforce, developed with ImpactEd Group: a one-workforce view of professions that span a child’s life.