Children’s minister Tim Loughton has launched a consultation on plans to revamp child protection guidance, which will see the volume of guidance reduced and national targets for assessing children scrapped.
But the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and Unison say the measures will make little difference to the quality of services and fail to address social workers concerns over funding cuts and “unmanageable” caseloads.
Nushra Mansuri, BASW professional officer, said: "Social workers won't quibble with efforts to cut red tape and reduce the time they spend on administration, but Tim Loughton is being utterly disingenuous in suggesting this move is anywhere near enough to make a difference to the real concerns that social workers have identified; namely unmanageable caseloads, stress, plummeting morale and cuts to administrative support staff.”
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