Consultation outcome

Social work: national assessment and accreditation system

• From: Department for Education
• Published: 20 December 2016
• Last updated: 8 December 2017 — See all updates

This was published under the 2016 to 2019 May Conservative government

This consultation has concluded

Read the full outcome

Confidence in practice: child and family social work assessment and accreditation system

Ref: DFE-00312-2017

PDF, 492 KB, 47 pages

Detail of outcome

Summary of responses we received, along with the government’s response outlining the next steps.

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Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on a new national assessment and accreditation system for child and family social workers, as part of our reforms.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
3pm on 20 December 2016 to 11:45pm on 14 March 2017

Consultation description

We invite views on:

• a future career pathway for child and family social workers
• the place of a national assessment and accreditation system in that pathway

The national assessment and accreditation system will introduce a new practice-focused methodology to establish the knowledge and skills that child and family social workers need for statutory child and family social work.

Published 20 December 2016
Last updated 8 December 2017 + show all updates

1. 8 December 2017

   Updated government response to clarify Ofsted local authority statistics.

2. 5 December 2017

   Added government response.

3. 20 December 2016

   First published.