The Care Review states that change is needed across the children’s social care workforce if its recommendations are to be implemented and improve outcomes for children and families. This means “giving professionals the time and resources to build strong, respectful relationships with children and families” and supporting the development of expertise so that these relationships can bring about change.
Here, the key workforce reforms are set out with reaction from sector leaders.
Social worker role
The review outlines how navigating the “complicated, bureaucratic and too often risk averse” children’s social care system takes social workers away from supporting children and families. That only a third of case-holding social workers’ time is spent working with families is described as “a staggering misuse of the system’s greatest asset”.
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