Question to the Department for Education:
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the cost to the public purse has been of the roll-out of the National Accreditation and Assessment Programme to date.
56 local authorities are currently participating in the National Assessment and Accreditation System and figures on the number of social workers who have completed their assessment is in the attached table.
The programme is voluntary for local authorities.
The cost of the programme to date has been £24 million, of which £12 million has been in grant funding to local authorities.