Shadow children's minister Tim Loughton announced plans to hand power back to social workers and cut red tape at the launch of the party's policy paper, Back to the Frontline.
The paper states that while the party supports the current pilots being undertaken in five local authorities, under a Tory government all local authorities would be given the chance to be involved in setting up employee-led social work practices.
The paper also puts forward the proposal that failing authorities would be made to outsource part or all of their social care provision.
Loughton said: "It is time to shift the emphasis from management to the professionals who really matter-frontline social workers. Anyone can see that social workers should not be spending 80 per cent of their time on desk-work."
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