Frontline, the fast-track training scheme for children’s social workers, this week celebrates its fifth anniversary with the placement of its 1,000th graduate participant with a council. It’s timely to ask whether Frontline, and fast-track training overall, isn’t now such a settled part of the English social work landscape that the feuding parties should lay down their arms.
Click here to read an article in The Guardian marking Frontline’s five year anniversary.
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24th January 2017
An independent evaluation of Firstline, a leadership development programme for social work managers, has been published by the Centre for Children and Family Research (CCFR) at Loughborough University.
19th July 2017
On Monday, over 280 participants began their journey as trainee social workers at the Frontline Summer Institute. After their first day of teaching, they were officially welcomed onto the programme at the opening ceremony.
