This includes a total of £1.6 million each year since 2021/22 shared across all 32 local authorities to progress trauma-informed services, systems and workforces. 4 Social Work education • We are working with key stakeholders to develop a Graduate Apprenticeship for Social Work to increase capacity by creating an additional work-based route, and last year, we supported a match-funding initiative to increase the numbers of local authority employees undertaking social work study with 90 students enrolling to date. • Working with partners, we are creating a strategic framework from qualifying education through to advanced practice for all social workers and social work employers, by Autumn 2024. • We are aiming to implement a mandatory supported year-in-practice for Newly Qualified Social Workers) by Autumn 2024 to ensure adequate training is available to all NQSWs as they transition from education into employment. • We set up a subgroup to the Social Work Education Partnership to develop the Advanced Practice Framework for Social Work), which will endorse a series of learning and developmental opportunities to support workforce development.