Majority of employers 'have not completed health check'

Sixty per cent of employers have still not completed a workload "health check" eight months after it was recommended by the Social Work Task Force, according to a snapshot survey of 30 local authorities carried out by the British Association of Social Workers.

In those local authorities that have made use of the taskforce's health check framework, 16% restricted its use to children's services.

The check advises councils across England to look at areas including workload, training, management and supervision and the health of the workplace for all their social workers. Community Care understands that the Social Work Reform Board will do a larger-scale survey of employers soon.

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