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Course to retain foreign workers

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A course designed to help foreign social workers adapt to UK practice is to be piloted by a social enterprise.

The two-day induction was developed by Felicity Collier, former chief executive of the British Association for Adoption & Fostering, director of social enterprise KSL Kevin Skinner, and a consultant working with the Children's Workforce Development Council (CWDC).

Skinner hopes the course will increase retention of staff trained overseas.

He said: "The common view of directors of children's services seems to be that overseas recruitment can be unsuccessful because staff do not stay long enough to justify their investment."

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