There's been all sorts of chatter on the quality front though, from both government and directors.
Beverley Hughes, the children's minister, told us in an interview last July that children's practitioners were not sufficiently trained in child development, attachment and development theroy.
Andrew Christie, director at Hammersmith and Fulham Council, was even starker, telling the Tories' social work commission that "people are emerging from social work training not properly prepared for childcare social work".
Following the tenor of Sally Gillen's blog perhaps by following teaching into the newly-qualified status camp, social work may also follow education in witnessing public calls for thousands of practitioners to leave the profession.
That was the view of Sir Cyril Taylor, until recently one of the government's chief education advisors, who said in November that 17,000 of England's 400,000 teachers were not up to the mark.