“Together, we have more experience, knowledge and expertise than we do individually, and more power to affect change.”
Everyone who completes one of our programmes joins the Fellowship. It brings together social workers from across England, at every level of experience, to spark ideas, share knowledge and build expertise.
Our fellows have enormous potential to create change for children and families in their community. But only through collective action, and in collaboration with other professionals, can they achieve the wide-ranging and lasting social change needed to create a society where no child’s life chances are limited by their social or family circumstance.


Practice
Fellows continue to develop their social work practice skills, share knowledge and learn from experts in the profession and beyond.

Leadership
We provide opportunities for fellows to further develop their leadership skills – whether they are in direct work with families and children or managing a team of social workers.

Innovation
We believe that social workers are best placed to identify solutions to the challenges they face so we invest time, resources and expertise in our fellows’ initiatives and ideas.
Developing initiatives
Our Innovation Lab is a dedicated space for fellows to develop and implement initiatives that create lasting social change for disadvantaged children. These could be initiatives that develop sustainable change at a local level or that have the potential to create broader systemic change, both within the statutory sector and wider society. Frontline’s Innovation programme aims to harness the unique insight social workers have into the root cause of these challenges, and support them to create real, tangible innovations to overcome these.

With fellows across the country, the Fellowship is in a unique position. Between us, we represent a significant number of local authorities and other connected organisations. This allows us to compare successes and failures across multiple settings, sharpening our ability to create tailor-made change relevant to our own place of work.
Frontline fellowLearn from our community
Spirituality and religion in social work practice
I saw exploring religion and spirituality as essential to widening my lens and learning tools to support a wider spectrum of children, families and communities.
Talking about social graces improves social work practice
We spoke with Frontline fellow Saul Lovell about how he has encouraged open conversations around ‘Social GGRRAAACCEEESSS*’ with his new team, which originally started informally last year.
Children’s Social Work Collective: a new advocacy group for social work in the UK
Roseanna Freiburghaus is a Frontline fellow who runs a blog about child migration in Europe, and is part of the Children’s Social Work Collective – a group of fellows who have set up and launched a new advocacy group for social work in the UK.