(Not met)

This is a very important point – just on it’s own!

Forget all the other targets (met). The PSA have identified and acknowledged failure in a crucial and specific key role of SWE. Also, this isn’t just about FTP cases being too long – it’s about evidence as well and also about failing to protect the public.

SWE are a Regulatory body but they are failing to protect the public – so why no action?

For example – a car can reach a top speed of 120mph (performance figure) but in the real world it never reaches that speed (effectiveness figure). A crude example but here for some context!

The published data doesn’t match the real world.

SWE are driven by performance figures and meeting those figures by any means possible even if it means rejecting serious cases in place of less serious cases to boost those performance figures.

SWE are very quick to boast on how many FTP cases are rejected at the Triage stage but there’s no context to those rejected cases. In the meantime less serious cases are dragged out for nothing but a performance figure in a report because that looks better in a report (because they’re reaching their top speed in a performance sense).

SWE are being rewarded for failure and they “mark their own homework” and are continually allowed to do this – but who regulates the regulators? SWE are at the top of the food chain and are in effect an “apex predator” in a regulatory sense of the word.

SWE definitely need a “Post Office” moment in being investigated for their total “IN-effectiveness”! But as with the Post Office it would take a group action!

The disgraceful delays is having a huge impact on social workers’ mental health, family planning, careers, jobs, etc. If those under SWE’s scrutiny used the excuses that SWE is using, they would be told that they lack insight, remediation and are likely to repeat the behaviour. Their practice would be deemed impaired and they would be given a harsh sanction, so perhaps it’s time we do the same to them.

I think every social worker should bombard their MPs with complaints about this organisation and the way it is harming the public, the profession and the individuals to whom they have a duty of care!

Depends on those they’re interviewing as to get the true picture. Many people are praised even when the standards are poor. The watchdog needs to be more diverse.
Please to get the true picture. Can the watchdog speak to those that the SWEngland don’t register just mainly for the boxes ticking. To get the balance to speak to those that the SW England refuse to register for no valid reasons. Also those experienced social workers who have moved away from the social work posts because of the SWEngland. We need a balance and a diverse views.