During the course of 2013 the Minister of State, Norman Lamb MP, invited me in my
personal capacity to conduct an Independent Review of Social Work Education. The
background to this invitation was the change that had taken place in the practice of social
work itself following the Social Work Task Force which undertook a review of frontline
social work practice and made recommendations for its reform which were taken forward
by the Social Work Reform Board. Both commented on social work education and made
recommendations as to its improvement.