Remodelling social work
Piloting ways of reshaping teams to enable social workers to spend more time with children and families, and enable closer working with colleagues from other services and organisations.
Employers of social workers who work with children, young people and families are keen to improve the quality of supervision, manage the workloads of social workers more effectively and provide strong administrative support for them.
We supported local authorities to deliver pilot projects across England, the objective of these projects was to create new ways of organising working practices, or staff teams that enabled social workers to spend more time with children and families - with the aim of improving outcomes.
The pilot projects also looked at how far remodelling can support the further integration of social work into other children and young people's services, and what helps this process to be effective.
The eleven local authorities involved in the pilot were:
- Bath and North-East Somerset
- Birmingham
- Derbyshire
- North Tyneside
- Rochdale
- Sheffield
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- Tower Hamlets
- Westminster
- Wirral
To find out more information on the eleven pilot areas, please go to social work remodelling pilot projects.
The project has now finished. A Summative Report on the Qualitative Evaluation on the Eleven Remodelling Social Work Pilots 2008-11, looked at how the programme met its objectives.
Remodelling Social Work Pilots
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