12 reasons why university is about so much more than studying
Whether you re taking your next educational steps, returning to studies or retraining, you ll leave university with much more than a degree
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Gaining skills and qualifications may be the driving force for many people to go to university, but the years spent studying can be about so much more than just that. Whether you re completing sixth form or you re thinking about returning to education later in life, university offers a huge array of life-enhancing opportunities and you’re sure to leavewith far more than the degree you signed up for.
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”.
Almost 5,000 social workers removed from register now able to practise to bolster Christmas capacity
Social Work England also rescinds decision to bar those removed from main register for not submitting CPD from practising under temporary register set up in response to coronavirus
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Story updated 22 December
Social Work England has enabled the almost 5,000 practitioners removed from the register this month to return to practice to bolster sector capacity over Christmas and New Year. The 4,846 practitioners will be added to the temporary register, set up in March under the Coronavirus Act to provide employers with additional practitioners to draw upon to deal with demand spikes and staff depletion during the pandemic.
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.
Just under 1,000 social workers remain at risk of removal from the register for not submitting CPD to Social Work England, with just under two weeks until the deadline.