Social Work England removes 256 practitioners from register for not meeting final CPD deadline
Regulator places removed practitioners on temporary register, enabling them to practise, and says overwhelming compliance with CPD requirement shows process was straightforward and manageable
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Social Work England has removed 256 practitioners from the register for not meeting the final deadline to submit a piece of CPD in order to renew their registration. The regulator said that the low figure – as a proportion of the 97,000 social workers who needed to renew this year – showed that its controversial requirement for practitioners to submit a piece of CPD in order to renew was “straightforward and manageable”.
Anti-racism in social work: no more questions – just actions please
Social work is institutionally racist and there has been a lack of explicit action to tackle this post-George Floyd and Black Lives Matter. It s time for meaningful action that results in systemic change, says Wayne Reid
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By Wayne Reid, BASW England professional officer and social worker
A senior social work manager joked to me recently that I “was the only authority on anti-racism in social work”. Although she was jesting, it did make me wonder what accountability and protections actually exist to support social workers of colour within the profession, given what we know about the omnipresence of racism. It didn’t take me very long to conclude – very little.