The council wants to split up its social work department and set up a new department of education, children and families - comprising education staff and children's social workers - and a department of health and social care.
But Ruth Stark, professional officer for the British Association of Social Workers in Scotland, said the decision was "terribly sad". She said the reorganisation would make it "more likely" that a case similar to that of Caleb Ness, the baby who was killed by his brain-damaged father, would occur.
"Social work and child protection is not about education," she added.
"It's a much more serious profession - it's about preventing children being beaten to death or being neglected."
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