With work under way to implement recent reforms to social work education and training, perhaps the last thing the profession wanted was two new reviews.
Yet Education Secretary Michael Gove has tasked Martin Narey, former chief executive of children's charity Barnardo's, with examining social work education. Meanwhile, care and support minister Norman Lamb has commissioned Professor David Croisdale-Appleby, chair of Skills for Care, to carry out a separate review on adult social work education.
Many see the two reviews - coupled with the appointment of separate chief social workers for children and adults - as further evidence of an unhelpful divide between children's and adult services.
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