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Enabling positive change in social work

Social Work England is a specialist body taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles. We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate – to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives

Who we are

We…..

• Set professional standards for social workers in England, including continuous professional

development standards.

• Will hold the register for circa 96,000 social workers.
• Set initial education and training standards and approve qualifying courses.
• Evaluate social workers’ continuing professional development.
• Approve post qualifying courses for persons who are, or wish to become, approved to act as approved

mental health professionals and courses for persons who are, or wish to become, approved to act as best interest assessors.

• Handle concerns raised to us about a social worker and assess whether a social worker’s practice has

fallen short of the professional standards.

Regional Engagement Team

The journey so far…

AMHP/BIA

Approved Mental Health Professional (AMHP)

• The AMHP standards will remain the same as HCPC at go live.
• We will be reviewing these standards from Spring next year with a view to publishing our own AMHP

standards in Autumn 2020. As part of this review we will be consulting with the sector and our key stakeholders. Best Interest Assessors (BIA)

• No existing standards to approve courses against
• Existing course providers can continue to offer the BIA course.
• We will be waiting for the accompanying regulations, framework and a Code of Practice for the

Approved Mental Capacity Professional (AMCP) role before considering this area further.

For any queries, please contact education.qa@socialworkengland.org.uk

The register

• Our registration rules ensure that all social workers on our register are able to practise safely and

effectively.

Online account

• All social workers on our register will need to create an online account. You can use your Social Work

England account to:

• Apply to be a registered social worker for this first time.
• Renew your registration annually.
• Pay your registration fee.
• Record your continuing professional development (CPD).
• Update your personal details.

CPD year starts Social worker carries out CPD Social worker records in online account By end of year, social worker ensures they have met our requirements Social worker confirms at point

• f renewal that they continue

to uphold the professional standards, which include requirements around CPD Regulator selects 2.5% sample from social workers that have uploaded CPD, notifies them and confirms they are valid CPD entries Regulator determines which social workers have not uploaded any CPD and determines an appropriate course of action

CPD Process – Year 1

Fitness to practise

• The fitness to practise rules set out what will happen when someone raises a concern about a social
• worker. We have held a consultation for our guidance behind the rules.
• Following extensive consultation with the sector, we have developed an approach that aligns good

regulatory practice with good social work practice. That means:

• Robust triage of concerns.
• Social work expertise at all major decision points in the process.
• We will stay in touch with you if a concern is raised about you.
• More options to conclude cases without a hearing.
• Support for complainants, witnesses and social workers involved in the process.
• Regular conversations on what we are learning.

Continuing th the conversation

Our events Cotton Court Business Centre, Preston | Tuesday 19 November, 12.15-4:15pm Online survey Our engagement survey will take 5-10 minutes and will be live until Friday 29 November. https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/socialworkengland_ engagement2019/ Next Twitter Q&A The move from HCPC to Social Work England with head of registration Rachel McAssey | Wednesday 27 November, 7-7.45pm

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