With the publication of Lord Laming's review into safeguarding imminent and the Social Work Taskforce investigating the training, leadership and recruitment of social workers, the General Social Care Council (GSCC) is now in the spotlight.
Still a relatively new body, the council was established in 2003 to register and regulate all social workers and social work students. But, unlike its fellow body the General Medical Council, the GSCC was not informed of the Baby P case until news of the trial hit the headlines.
Although the organisation has a compulsory code of practice for social workers, a similar code for employers of social workers is not mandatory. There is no compulsory duty for employers to alert the GSCC when social workers breach their own code. Moreover, a recent poll in the council's newsletter found more than 20 per cent of employers are not making social workers aware of their need to abide by their compulsory code of practice.
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