Vacancy rates and staff turnover have plummeted in Essex since the opening of its children's social work training academy. Charlotte Goddard asks those behind the initiative how it has been achieved.
I was placed in a primary school in a town near Birmingham between September 2008 and February 2009. I was the first student social worker that they'd had.
Kamara Palmer is an agency social worker in Leicestershire Council's 16-plus leaving care team. She graduated from the University of Birmingham in September 2009.