Children and Social Work Act 2017

The Children and Social Work Act 2017 (c. 16) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

Children and Social Work Act 2017

Act of Parliament
Parliament of the United Kingdom
Long title	An Act to make provision about looked after children; to make other provision in relation to the welfare of children; and to make provision about the regulation of social workers.
Citation	2017 c. 16
Dates
Royal assent	27 April 2017
History of passage through Parliament
Text of statute as originally enacted
Revised text of statute as amended

The Act was passed by the Conservative Government in 2017, having been launched in 2016 in the House of Lords by Parliamentary Undersecretary of State for the School System Lord Nash, and guided through the House of Commons by Edward Timpson MP, who was then Minister for Children and Families. The Bill was published with no prior public consultation.^[1]

Provisions of the Act included the creation of Social Work England as the regulator for social workers. This non-departmental public body took up its role in December 2019.^[2]