The organisation has made decent progress in many of its programmes. As its chair Sir Paul Ennals outlines, the department looks most likely to pick up the baton on reforms to the training and recruitment of social workers. It remains a profession high on staff turnover and low on esteem. Social workers need to regain the confidence in their own judgments and feel relieved of unnecessary bureaucracy and a constant fear of making mistakes. That undertaking is literally, work in progress. Aside from the Munro review and the new College of Social Work, much work remains to transform the culture and morale of the profession.
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