The Social Workers: Taking Back our Profession rally was organised by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) in a bid to get answers from all political parties on how they plan to improve social work.
Among the politicians quizzed at the event were children's minister Delyth Morgan, shadow children's minister Tim Loughton and Liberal Democrat MP Lynne Featherstone, as well as chair of the social work taskforce Moira Gibb.
Social workers urged politicians to support the founding of a UK college of social work. Tim Chittleburgh, chair of BASW, said: "We will play a founding role in what should be a UK college of social work building on the BASW code of ethics and our membership.
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