Social workers hailed in New Year Honours list

Champions of asylum-seeking children and anti-racist practice, respectively, were among social workers recognised in the New Year Honours.
Children’s practitioner Kirstie Baughan and adult safeguarding lead Shabnam Ahmed were garlanded in the annual list, alongside chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler.
Within the wider sector, there was also recognition for the former chief executive of social work charity Frontline, Josh MacAlister, who recently led a government-