The government has set out its plans for how a proposed national assessment and accreditation system for children's social workers intended to boost the quality of practice in the profession will be implemented.
Details of the scheme, outlined in a Department for Education consultation document published in late 2016, reveal it will be introduced in two distinct "phases", with it not set for full introduction in the vast majority of councils until 2019.
A decision on whether accreditation should be mandatory will not be made until 2019 at the earliest, based on the findings of the initial phase. The government has not announced any additional funding for councils to introduce the system.
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