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“Building a safe confident future”
The final report of theSocial Work Task Force November 2009
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Overview
• Poor image of Social Work profession• Steeply rising demand• Capacity across service very stretched-
acute recruitment and retention problems• “Good social workers can and do make a
huge difference in difficult situations”• 15 recommendations
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“Weaknesses in recruitment, retention, frontline resources, training, leadership public understanding and other factors are all compounding one another”
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New Challenges for the profession
• Adapting to the new agenda for personalisation
• Responding to heightened public concern about child protection
• Play an effective part in integrated working between different agencies
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Comprehensive ambitious reform
• Improved training• Improved working conditions• Stronger leadership and independence• A reliable supply of confident professionals• Greater understanding among the general
public of the role• More use of research and continuing
professional development
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Reformed system of initial education and training
• Clear consistent entry criteria for social work courses
• Courses and teaching of a high standard across all providers-advanced teaching organisation status
• Supported and assessed first year in employment
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Improved working conditions
• Clear, universal and binding standards for employers
• Employers to assess their performance against the standard-including caseload controls-and publish results
• Dedicated programme of training and support for managers
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Stronger leadership and independence
• National College of Social Work• National Reform Programme• Avoid perverse incentives and an
over-emphasis on process in performance measurement
• Continue to improve and develop ICS• Identify necessary investment to
make reform on the front line
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A reliable supply of confident professionals
• Licence to practise social work• Avoid caseload “ceiling” but
employers to monitor and publish information on workloads
• National standard on the support social workers should expect from their employers
• New requirements for supervision
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Greater understanding among the general public of the role
• Long term strategy for media relations
• Development of clear lines of responsibilty when a news story “breaks” at a national and/or local level
• Dessemination of good news and good practice examples
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Increase in research and continuing professional development
• The development of a national career structure and a framework for the continuing professional development of social workers
• A single comprehensive story of what the expectation is for social workers at each stage of their careers
• Ongoing learning and professional development to be a responsibility and an entitlement
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Priorities for the service in Hertfordshire
• Improve the provision and quality of practice placements
• Plan for assessed first year in employment
• Improve guidance on supervision of social workers
• Training and support for frontline managers
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Priorities for the service in Hertfordshire/2
• Improve understanding of demand and caseload levels-framework available early 2010
• Increase collaboration with University of Hertfordshire and others –improve alignment of academic and practical elements of degree
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“Social Work has arrived at a watershed.This is a moment of opportunity that we all need to seize…..”