Have your say – workforce

Since the review launched, we have met with over 1000 children’s social care professionals including social workers, early help practitioners, residential care staff, teachers, health professionals, police officers and those who do voluntary work with children and families and we are continuing to talk to people.

We previously invited Local Authorities and other organisations that support and employ those working with children and families to complete an expression of interest form which closed on 16 July. We also had a form for individuals which closed on 17 September. 

We had a great response to both of these expressions of interest and have spent the last few months hearing from professionals and organisations who responded.

We continue to partner with the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care who will continue to run polls over the coming months for social workers to feed in their thoughts to the Review. If you are a registered social worker and would like to sign up, please do so here: Polling – What Works for Children’s Social Care (whatworks-csc.org.uk)

There will be more opportunities for professionals to engage in the next phase of the review, which will include coming back out to those we’ve met to test our thinking further.

If you wish to be involved in the meantime please email: review.childrenssocialcare@education.gov.uk 

You can see our previous workforce engagement plan (published in May 2021) here: