Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many social workers her Department estimates will be trained through (a) Frontline and (b) Step-Up in (i) 2015-16 and (ii) 2016-17.

The Department for Education estimates that 103 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 132 participants in 2016-17 through Frontline.

The Department for Education estimates that up to 303 participants are set to qualify as social workers in 2015-16 and up to 400 participants in 2016- through Step Up to Social Work.

This Government have recently announced an expansion of schemes like Frontline and Step Up to Social Work as part of a wider drive to improve the quality of social work.