Improving Social Work in Scotland – SWIA Report

The government has welcomed a new report from Scotland’s Social Work Inspection Agency (SWIA), which looks in detail at how social work services have been performing for local people during the last four years.

The report entitled, Improving Social Work in Scotland is based on the findings of social work services performance inspections, between 2005 and 2009, in all local authority areas.

It provides the most comprehensive picture of what is happening in that field to support vulnerable groups such as children and older people, while also looking at the work undertaken to manage offenders.