- Thursday, April 25, 2024
By: Sarwar Alam
The Department of Education has announced that Lord Patel of Bradford will chair a new social work regulator, Social Work England, which will set professional, education and training standards for social workers. Lord Patel’s appointment was part of a series of measures announced by education secretary Damian Hinds, to mark World Social Work Day on Tuesday (20), and aimed at ‘raising the status of the social work profession’ whom Hinds described as ‘often the unsung heroes of our society’. Former children’s minister Edward Timpson will chair the independent Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel which has been created to investigate and…
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