National safe working limits needed to stop social workers leaving profession, DfE told

National safe working limits for children’s social workers are needed to stop workloads driving practitioners out of the profession, the Department for Education (DfE) has been told…. Following a two-year DfE-commissioned project, the national workload action group (NWAG) called on the department to urgently commission work to determine safe workload limits, which it said should be followed by a review of the sufficiency of the children’s social work workforce.