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By striving to make practice perfect, a new academy for social workers is turning around Coventry’s children’s services

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Coventry city council: children’s services social work academy

Branded as “inadequate” by Ofsted inspectors five years ago, Coventry city council realised it had to do something if it was ever going to achieve its ambition to become “good” and be the employer of choice for graduate social workers. With a new director of children’s services and a new principal social worker in place in 2016, the authority designed a new social work academy model with advice from local universities.

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