Authority
Royal Borough of Greenwich
Funding
The authority used Social Work Improvement Fund cash to launch the scheme and it is now funded out of its workforce development budget at a cost of about £150,000 a year
Background
When Greenwich Council brought in a sizeable cohort of newly qualified social workers (NQSWs), the authority was well aware of the importance of ensuring they got the right support to take that "big step" into practice, explains Andrew O'Sullivan, senior assistant director for safeguarding and social care.
"We realised the level and type of support needed was over and above what we could reasonably expect frontline managers to provide," he says. The solution was to employ "professional educators" to provide mentoring and coaching, and support professional development.
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