Central Bedfordshire Council has been named Best Social Work Employer of the Year
Central Bedfordshire Council has been named Best Social Work Employer of the Year in a national awards event. The council’s Children’s Services saw off three other shortlisted local authorities to claim the prize at the Social Worker of the Year Awards on Friday night. Judges praised the work done by Central Bedfordshire to ensure that social workers have manageable caseloads, good supervision and support with access to great learning and development opportunities and an excellent Assessed and Supported Year in Employment (ASYE) programme for newly-qualified children’s social workers. As part of Children’s Services’ ambitious transformation agenda, during the past three years, teams have been restructured into smaller units with non-caseholding managers. The result of this is that front-line social work staff now have manageable numbers of families to support and can devote more time to getting to know the children they work with, in turn building up positive and lasting relat