The organisation, which will have a place on both the College Development Group and the Social Work Reform Board, which is overseeing the reforms put forward by the Social Work Task Force, is also calling for the board to report to the college, and for the college to be powerful enough to set entry standards for social workers, accredit continuous professional development, license employers and set standards for licensing social workers.
Fran Fuller, deputy UK chair of BASW, said: "In 2010 social work is going to change and social workers will be heard. Every organisation that has social work at the heart of it knows this is the only way social work can be the first-class profession it should and can be."
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