Lord Laming has recommended that the Department should complete such a study within six months of his progress report in March, and the Government have accepted this recommendation. In addition, the Social Work Task Force has already made a series of recommendations which, it believes, will improve frontline workers’ experience of ICS. The Government have accepted the Task Force’s advice in this area, and work to put this into effect will start without delay.
The Task Force will report fully to the Government in October and we are committed to bringing forward a comprehensive programme of reform for the profession at that time.