DfE agency rules will have no impact on locum use, say social workers

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Government agency social work rules will not reduce councils’ reliance on locums in children’s services, say practitioners.
The rules, which will start to take effect at the end of this month, aim “to reduce the overreliance on and costs of agency child and family social workers” for English councils, says the Department for Education (DfE).
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