Teaching partnerships, to improve placement opportunities and the quality of learning and development students experience on placement, have been a great success. So much so, government funding, channeled through the Department of Education and the Department for Health and Social Care, is now being expanded.
I am very pleased to welcome to the blog my colleague and counterpart based at the Department for Education, the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families, Isabelle Trowler. Although based in separate departments we work together to make social …
The public consultation on the regulatory framework for the new specialist regulator for social workers, is now open. Over the last few months, there has been real progress in establishing Social Work England, the new regulator for social workers in …
New Sheffield based regulator for social work in England announced Even before I became Chief Social Worker for Adults, I was committed to driving forward improvements in – and the expansion of – social work practice. Then, as now, I’ve …
I was very pleased to be able to support the first national Come Back to Social Work programme which was led by the Local Government Association and funded by the Department of Health and the Department for Education. I attended their …
Isabelle Trowler, Chief Social Worker for Children and Families and I recently wrote out to the sector inviting applications for the opportunity for additional investment in developing teaching partnership approaches. There is growing recognition by employers of social workers that …