
“Private social work agencies are contacting our social workers, hoovering them up and then selling them back to us at twice the cost,” Steve Crocker told the ADCS annual conference on Thursday
He shared particular concerns over an “increasing” practice of agencies only supplying social workers to local authorities as part of a team.
Crocker, who is director of children’s services in Hampshire and the Isle of White, said “If I have one of our workers in Andover on maternity leave, that’s the sort of example where I’d use an agency worker to cover that for that time.
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