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Critical observations on the Munro Review of Child Protection

From Newsletter 4, Autumn 2011

Sweta Rajan-Rankin and Peter Beresford offer some critical observations on the Munro Review of Child Protection

The Social Work Taskforce Final Report: is the end in sight?

From Newsletter #1 Spring 2010

The Social Work Taskforce recently published its Final Report. What will this mean for practitioners and service users at the front line? Mark Baldwin presents an overview of its main recommendations, and argues that it fails to address major issues such as funding, social work values and service user involvement.

A (Royal) College: is more professionalism the answer to the crisis of social work?

by Michael Lavalette, December 2009

The final report of the Social Work Task Force was launched last week to much aplomb. Government Ministers immediately accepted all 15 recommendations and Ed Balls and Andy Burnham told those present that the Government would push ahead with legislation as soon as possible in 2010.