Social workers satisfied with training but continue to struggle with caseloads

27 July 2010 1 min read Gemma Spence Social Care

Most social workers are happy with the training and line-management support they receive but a quarter of newly qualified staff feel their caseloads are too high, according to an Ofsted survey.

The findings form part of Safeguarding and Looked-after Children, Ofsted’s first study into the views of social workers across England, which quizzed more than 4,000 social work practitioners.

Sixty-six per cent of respondents said that they felt they were offered sufficient training by their local authority, while 78 per cent said that the training offered helped them to understand and meet the individual needs of children and young people.

But only one in five respondents said that they had sufficient time to work effectively with young people assigned to them, while a quarter of newly qualified social workers did not feel their caseloads were properly protected in their first year of work.

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