极速赛车168最新开奖号码 Comments on: Watchdog escalates Social Work England fitness to practise concerns to cabinet ministers

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Ian B

Ian B — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 20:04:37 +0000

In reply to Stop treating social workers like criminals. I believe they are starting to take some of the legal work in-house this year, for the reasons you mention. Fitness to practise is a discrete and complex area of law with a large body of case law, mostly made up of cases from the GMC, NMC, SRA and others professional regulators who have been around a lot longer. Realistically, a new regulator is going to need to pay an external provider with all that knowledge in order to get themselves going and it won't be a quick process to take a good chunk of that in-house, though I agree that is the best and most cost-effective way in the long run.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alison D

Alison D — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 15:17:02 +0000

J Knowles I’m disgusted by the way you were treated. We should ALL boycott SWE!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: J Knowles

J Knowles — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 11:44:17 +0000

After 30 years of front line working I left the profession because of SWE and their manner/incompetence. Like with many others although it took them 2 years to investigate a very basic complaint (a duty worker would have sorted it in 2 hours) there was no evidence. Zero, nothing. It was not even me it was someone I supervised, that was enough to throw me into the chaos of SWE process. BASW complained on my behalf but made no difference.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: David

David — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 19:06:17 +0000

However will this government listen and act? Labour is not having a good press regarding looking after the interests of its supporters. Witness its cuts to winter fuel allowances to pensioners and its now assault on benefit provision. This is Toryism.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: David

David — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 17:46:20 +0000

Let us hope that the views about the inadequacy of Social Work England are heard and acted upon.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Josie

Josie — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 22:16:24 +0000

I’m pleased this is being brought to the attention of cabinet ministers at last. I read the comments left by others above and it’s appalling that so many are being subjected to unnecessary anguish and loss. It’s heartless.
After many years in the profession, I have taken the decision to leave. It’s too stressful, with inadequate pay and poor conditions.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Mark

Mark — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 16:50:15 +0000

5 years it took SWE to carry out their Fitness to practice investigation for me following allegations that led to my dismissal. Five years of hell that resulted in MH problems, marriage break up, loss of earnings, loss of pension contribution and loss of confidence.

I’ve been a social worker for 23 years but now I have been declared fit for practice with no conditions and have a clear DBS I can’t get a job. I can’t get a job as a social worker as my registration has lapsed as I refused to pay my annual fee when they were taking years to investigate, but can’t get a job to gain the required CPD. My local authority won’t reemploy anyone whose been dismissed even though SWE have properly investigated the allegations, found them unproven and declared me for to practice. So I’m stuck unable to do the job I love and dedicated my life to.

As SWE too so long to investigate I now can’t make an unfair dismissal claim against my old employer either

Totally disgusting how I’ve been treated over what have proven to be false allegations!!

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Elvie McMurtagh

Elvie McMurtagh — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 13:55:33 +0000

And, ironically, they’re not even pretending to review evidence of CPD for the second year running.

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Alastair

Alastair — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 11:14:23 +0000

In reply to Duncan. I agree completely. I think a big part of the problem is that the whole process is dominated by lawyers who are very risk averse and always take an adversarial approach.. I do not understand why the leadership of SWE have not grasped this nettle and changed the process years ago

极速赛车168最新开奖号码 By: Stop treating social workers like criminals

Stop treating social workers like criminals — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 08:39:16 +0000

I recently made a FOI request about multiple matters including the cost of fees paid to Capsticks, the external legal firm SWE employ to bring cases against social workers. The response received was “ Between 1 April and 31 March 2024 the total amount of the invoices over £25,000 payable to Capsticks was £5,117,237.26”. SWE need to stop using expensive outsourced legal firms to bring these cases and pay better salaries to internal employees to recruit a higher calibre of staff who know what they are doing. Investigators have no understanding of a social workers role and cannot even piece together pages of a single document. I had to re-order pages in my bundle to ensure that documents where whole and even after doing this for the case investigator she kept documents incomplete with loose pages scattered throughout the bundle. If this is the case how can they possibly investigate thoroughly when they cannot even ascertain that a document is incomplete. My investigator went on a fishing expedition to prove guilt and only after multiple challenges from my union rep did she bother to seek any witness statements to prove my case as I had requested. In my personal case social work England are not fit to practice. They breach multiple standards that are set for social workers and in particular they fail to uphold public trust and confidence. They need a complete overhaul and new staff who are not social work haters !