Moving from compliance to professional curiosity for social workers key to improvement – study

Moving from expecting compliance from social workers to enabling them to exercise professional curiosity is a key factor in improving children’s services.
Councils that had progressed highlighted the importance of giving practitioners the freedom to innovate, found the study on enablers of improvement in children’s services commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA).
The report, by research consultancy Ipsos Partnership, also said improving authorities reported taking ste