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Top graduates to become social workers

Top graduates to become social workers
The country's best graduates could be sent into frontline child protection jobs within months of leaving university, under plans being considered by ministers. The Times reports that Education Secretary Michael Gove will next week endorse the 'Frontline' proposals, under which graduates will be given intensive training before taking on child protection roles in order to address an ongoing shortage of social workers. Writing in The Times former education minister Lord Adonis – one of the architects of the plans – says the status of social work is a "national scandal".

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