Social Work Reform:Progress, opportunities and challenges

Lyn Romeo – Chief Social Worker for Adults

Visibility and Impact

• People & relationships

• Adaptive innovation

• Inter-cultural challenge

• David & Goliath

• The story

Return to the knitting

• It’s all about people

• Values & Attributes

• Confidence & Making a difference

• Core practice

• Many pitches

Social Work Reform:Progress, opportunities and challenges

Isabelle Trowler – Chief Social Worker for Children and Families

It’s all in the balance

• Innovation in action

• Proof and plausibility

• Freedom and flexibilities

• Foolish consistency:the hobgoblin of the tiny mind

• Strength in effectiveness

The push and pull of politics

• Influence & ideas

• Practice leadership

• Holding our nerve

• Principles:social strength & solutions; autonomy & responsibility; clarification & complexity

Social Work Reform:Progress, opportunities and challenges

Annie Hudson – Chief Executive, The College of Social Work

Narratives for change

• Who is social work?Contest + congruence

• Recasting professional identities

• Building social work’s ‘cultural capital’

• The ‘sound’ of professional voices

• The role of a professional College

The head and heart of the work 

• Agency, authority + evidence literacy

• ‘Clouded thinking’: rigour and risk

• Wicked issues + adaptive practice

• Resilience + courage (+ CPD)

• Systems leadership for 1st class practice