Major social work reform announced
The government hinted that more funding may be made available to transform social work as it announced a raft of measures today to improve standards and morale in a beleaguered profession knocked by widespread public criticism.
Ed's Balls responded to final Social Work Task Force report
I have been stating for many years that newly qualified Social Workers should spend at least nine months being mentored,and kept away from front line child protection duties, until they have proved their competence,and ability to practice safely.
ReplyDeleteThe Nursing Profession have been following,similar procedures for many years.
If the former had occurred years ago, we wouldn't have the tragedies and Local Authority failures, with reference to the death of vulnerable children,and possibly in the majority of cases, Parents having children wrongly taken into care,facing forced adoption,and miscarriages of Justice.