§ Mr. HinchliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what assessment she has made as to the adequacy of the daily placement fee budget available to CCETSW and its implications for voluntary and independent sector social work student placements.
§ Mr. BowisThe Department gives the Central Council for the Education and Training of Social WorkCCETSW—a budget to support practice learning. The amount assigned to the daily placement fees budget is one element of this, the size of which is for CCETSW to determine within the total allocated for practice learning. The Department continues to work with CCETSW on the provision of student placements in all sectors. Moreover, the Department has set aside £700,000 of the training support grant to local authorities to make additional practice placements available in 1994–95. This has been warmly welcomed by them.