What factors influence the continuing development of newly-qualified social workers and their future career decisions?
How well do employers support the development of social workers? How well are social workers trained to deliver front-line supervision? 17. As stated above, we believe that post-qualification training for child and family social workers should be reformed and a national framework for postgraduate training should be developed to provide consistency across the profession. It is important that qualifications developed under this framework are relevant with enough emphasis on practice. Employers are unlikely to buy into a system of postgraduate qualification which is seen to be more about ticking boxes than providing the skills which social workers need. 18. We also believe there is a strong case for developing different career paths for social workers. At present there is too much emphasis on social workers who wish to move up in the profession being required to move into management and to lose day to day contact with their client group. Such a career structure does not help to develop th
