Ruth Allen took over from Bridget Robb as chief executive of the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) on 11 April.
You join BASW at a time when membership has risen 15 per cent (to 16,610) in the past year. Is this a result of The College of Social Work (TCSW) closing?
I was very involved with the college, but was always a BASW member, so I wanted the two organisations to survive and work together. The closure of the college [last September] was a big shock and it signalled where government wanted to go with its own reform agenda, but it has actually opened the possibility of a unified independent body.
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