Supervision for Early Years Workers

Jane Wonnacott is director of professional practice at In-Trac Training and Consultancy Ltd. She qualified as a social worker in 1979 and for over 20 years has been working as an independent trainer and consultant. In this role she has worked with numerous statutory and voluntary organisations developing and delivering training as well as working on other projects including practice audits, policy development and serious case reviews. Jane has a long-standing interest in supervision and has developed and delivered supervision training courses both in the UK and abroad. She co-wrote, with Tony Morrison, the Children’s Workforce Development Council’s guide and training programme for the supervisors of social workers in the first three years of their professional development. Since Tony’s death in 2010, In-Trac has continued to develop these training materials and from 2009-2013 trained over 9,000 supervisors working within health and social care. Jane also wrote the best-selling Developing and Supporting Effective Staff Supervision Reader and Developing and Supporting Effective Staff Supervision Training Pack, which was published in 2014 and aims to actively encourages professional reflection and development.