It’s time to end the feud over fast-track training for children’s social workers | David Brindle

Frontline is seen as elitist, but 55% of this year’s intake were the first in their families to go to university and 18% were non-white

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.

Social work academics see the scheme as elitist, overhyped and overfunded. The heated controversy surrounding it shows no sign of going away. But 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.

Frontline founder Josh Macalister has been impatient for improvement in standards of practice in the children's sector

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