Plans to ban the use of agency social work teams were one of the most eye-catching and controversial proposals in Stable Homes, Built on Love, the government’s response to the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
Published in February, the policy document proposed to outlaw the employment of whole teams as one of several measures to reduce reliance on temporary staff, the amount councils are spending on agency workers and create greater parity in levels of pay between temporary and employed practitioners.
The proposal followed an investigation by CYP Now, which was cited in the government’s response to the Care Review, that found a 10-fold rise in agency teams being used by local authorities in last five years, amounting to a total cost of £41m across all councils.
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