| A report commissioned by the Department for Education in to the education and training of social workers has made the following recommendations: the Chief Social Worker should produce a single definition of what a newly qualified children’s social worker needs to understand and be able to do; undergraduate trainees should be allowed to specialise in children’s social work and complete all placements in children’s social care. |
| Source: Department for Education 13 February 2014 |
| Further information: Making the education of social workers consistently effective: report of Sir Martin Narey’s independent review of the education of children’s social workers (PDF) |
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