Chief Social Worker for Children and Families and Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel member

Isabelle Trowler CBE

Biography

Isabelle Trowler was appointed as the government바카라 사이트™s first Chief Social Worker for Children and Families in September 2013. She qualified as a social worker in 1996 and has worked as both a practitioner and senior leader in a variety of local government roles.

Isabelle chairs thèưNational Practice Group̀ưand is currently a member of the:

Isabelle was a founder member of the What Work바카라 사이트™s Centre for Children바카라 사이트™s Social Care, which is now known as̀ư. She has more than 30 years바카라 사이트™ experience in the children바카라 사이트™s sector and has previously contributed to:

She is currently working closely with thèưfamilies first for children pathfinders̀ưand has a particular interest in the national rollout of the multi-agency child protection teams.

Isabelle was awarded a CBE in the New Years Honours 2024 for services to children바카라 사이트™s social care.

Chief Social Worker for Children and Families

The Chief Social Worker for Children and Families offers independent expert advice on a wide range of national policy areas including:

  • family help
  • child protection
  • family justice
  • children바카라 사이트™s social care workforce

She works collaboratively with thèưChief Social Worker for Adults̀ưfrom the Office of the Chief Social Worker to:

  • support and challenge the profession to ensure that children and adults get the best possible help from social workers
  • provide independent expert advice to ministers on social work reform and the contribution of social work and social workers to policy implementation more generally
  • provide leadership and work with key leaders in the profession and wider sector to drive forward the improvement and reform programme for social work
  • challenge weak practice to achieve decisive improvements in the quality of social work
  • provide leadership to the network of principal social workers

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel member

Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel