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Jun 27 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Important 🧵here. This is not ok. CareTech are also partners with Transform Society on the Now Care project.

Transform Society are the umbrella group of:

Frontline
Teach First
Police Now
Unlocked Graduates
(Think Ahead recently left the group)

caretechfoundation.org.uk/transform-soci…
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Quote on CareTech partnership from James Darley, CEO Transform Society. Darley also director/former director of Frontline, Teach First, Think Ahead, Police Now, Unlocked Grads, Now Teach. All have benefited from lucrative gov contracts. Darley also formerly of Credit Suisse🙄 2/4
The interim report of the #MacAlisterReview, chaired by Frontline founder Josh MacAlister, was recently used in a court case by the government to justify restricting care rights for children in care aged 16-17, a decision that benefits CareTech.🧵here:
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For more on transform society check out this blog: socialwhatnow.medium.com/the-rise-of-th…

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Apr 4
Based on what we know about Josh MacAlister, I think we can safely say there are a number of areas/orgs/people that will avoid any scrutiny under his #carereview.

Here's a few we can pretty much guarantee will escape any challenge (add your own!):
The most obvious is Frontline, an organisation MacAlister founded with support from Michael Gove and acted as CEO until last year. Now the self-professed largest social work charity in England, and the largest social work qualifying programme in the country. No chance of scrutiny
Chief Social Worker, Isabelle Trowler, who was appointed by Gove in the same announcement as Frontline's initial funding & has been in the role almost a decade. Trowler helped design Frontline & has been a major supporter of MacAlister within the DfE. Expect no scrutiny.
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Mar 27
Just one of the dozens of reasons Josh MacAlister is not an "Independent" chair & is unsuited to be heading the children's social care review. He was founder and CEO of Frontline until 2021, Frontline's umbrella network Transform Society currently collaborating with Caretech 1/7
The collaboration aims to set up a government funded Registered Manager Fast-track programme: Now Care. James Darley, CEO of Transform Society and board member of Frontline until 2020, is a founding team member of Now Care 2/7
caretechfoundation.org.uk/wp-content/upl…
Also part of that team is Julia Cleverdon, board member of Transform Society and Patron of Teach First, where MacAlister was trained and identifies as an ambassador. Anyway, back to CareTech, their profiteering's been in the news recently: 3/7
thetimes.co.uk/article/care-h…
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Jan 19
For any friends in the UK wondering who Wendy Kopp is, here’s a short thread (please look her up for more). So she proposed the fast-track Teach for America (TfA) as a final year Princeton student, and it was founded in 1989. 1/10
TfA (USA) begot Teach First begot Frontline begot Think Ahead begot Police Now begot Unlocked (all UK). We now also have a UK national movement (Transform Society) and an international movement (Teach for All) designed to spread this model using networks and influence 2/10
As with all fast-track models, the focus of TfA from the start was on blaming those teachers not trained through their model, and there were some vicious attacks on teachers in USA for sure. See for example this Newsweek cover 3/10
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Dec 15, 2021
To the surprise of no one, the government announced (through a pre-procurement notice) today that it will be extending the contract of social work fast-track Frontline, and likely it will be expanding (as each new contract has). There's a lot to unpick, so strap in. A thread 1/16
The full pre-procurement notice can be found at this link. While technically it will be an open tender, for all intents and purposes its an extension to Frontline, and much like previous contracts will be tailored to their model to ensure they win it 2/16

bidstats.uk/tenders/2021/W…
If you would like more info about how the UK procurement process is biased in favour of large established providers, including through tailor made contracts, this study is good. Such waste of time/resources for what amounts to pantomime of competition 3/16
demos.co.uk/project/value-…
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Jun 16, 2021
An NAAS Thread: In the likely event the National Assessment and Accreditation System (NAAS) rears its ugly head through the #carereview, a reminder of some of the many issues. The NAAS has been such a trainwreck I have likely missed some so please add more @carereviewwatch 1/14
First the obvious points to make. It adds more work to already overworked social workers. There is no evidence that it improves practice in any way. At a time of scare resources it is outrageously expensive. Regardless of how often they repeat it, it is a test, not CPD! 2/14
It is not supported by social workers, with only 10% of BASW supporting it, and being subject to a Social Work Union Boycott. ADCS, JSWEC and others also raised serious concerns. basw.co.uk/media/news/201… 3/14
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Jun 14, 2021
1/4 Why many of us are interested in networks: Now Teach was established using the founders personal and professional connections to leaders of established charities (inc. ARK), hedge funds, media & central government, but framed as an underdog story.

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9…
2/4 Value of Now Teach aside, this is not what should determine the qualifying of some of our most NB professionals, and how public funding for public professionals is spent. Same issues in social work for sure.
3/4 The founder agrees on the importance of networks: "I marvelled at what a difference a few contacts seemed to be making — without the people Katie and I knew between us, I doubt if we would have managed to get our idea off the ground".
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