Local Government Association

Standard 5 is about making sure students and qualified practitioners can reflect critically on their practice through high quality, regular supervision.

Standard 4 is about promoting a positive culture for employee wellbeing and supporting social workers to have the practical tools, resources and the organisational environment they need to practice effectively and safely.

Standard 3 is about ensuring that employees have safe workloads reflective of their experience and skill, resulting in better outcomes for adults, families and children using the social work service.

Standard 2 is about using effective workforce planning systems to make sure that the right number of social workers, with the right level of skills and experience, are available to meet current and future service demands.

This standard is about developing a strategic vision and ensuring professional leadership for the social work service. This vision and leadership should provide a strong framework, with a clear understanding about the principles that constitute good social work practice and how those principles function. This overarching framework should encompass all eight of the employer standards.

Preliminary LGA analysis ahead of the 2020 Budget and Spending Review has identified that council services face a funding gap of £6.4 billion forming in the day-to-day council budgets in 2024/25 in comparison to 2019/20 budgets.

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On a misty February morning, ten local government officers gathered in Kingston for the first LG Challenge of 2020 at Surrey County Council.