Training Social Workers is Child's Play

CiCC members and council officers Central Bedfordshire Children in Care Council (CiCC) members provided aspiring social workers with plenty of food for thought after addressing them at a conference. The group of seven young people were invited to speak at the event organised by charity Frontline in Ware, Hertfordshire. They also led exercises with the 120 participants to get them thinking more about the needs and wishes of looked-after children. CiCC members are already involved in the recruitment process for people looking to get into children’s social care by doing an assessed and supported year in employment (ASYE) programme through the Central Bedfordshire Academy of Social Work and Early Intervention. That’s why they were invited to the event by Frontline, which recruits and trains social workers across the UK before working with local authorities to get them placed in children’s services departments. The CiCC members, the youngest of whom is 11, spoke candidl