Speaking at the Association of Directors of Children's Services' (ADCS) annual conference in Manchester last week, Jane Haywood, chief executive of the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC), said a lack of common training and standardised pay structures is blighting the development of the workforce. She said: "If you want to build a reformed workforce at local level then you need to do something about the induction of people across the whole workforce, and you need to have common training on things like...