This morning, Ed Balls, the Secretary of State for Children has announced review of Social Work. Seeing his job description, I wonder how much effect this will have on the generic nature of Social Work training. Some of the headline changes ‘demanded’ are that senior managers in ‘Social Services Children’s’ Departments’ (I put that in inverted [...]

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