Sorry this is off the tangent question but I am really trying to find out if sws subjected to hcpc proceedings have been able to get back into social work again:

Can social workers get back into social work after being subjected to hcpc proceedings ie conditions on their registration ect. Once when sws goes through this intimidating process (hcpc proceedings) you are basically made to feel that you are the only person who is going through this process and you feel further humiliated and isolated. And one feels very isolated and lonely. There is no one to guide you on employment after your conditions come off and when you try to register as a locum sw and you tell them that you had conditions on your registration but they have been all cleared now but despite all this one gets a cold response from the agency. Is there a life after the ordeal?

Have sws been able to conduct themselves back into social work after the ordeal? There is no support groups for sws who go through these investigations. Its a very daunting and lonely process. One is made to feel like a criminal whilst your employer is laughing. There is no compassion left in this world anymore. People who refer sws to regulators they dont think about how this is going to impact on health and wellbeing. They dont care how you are going to manage financially. They dont look at the age of the person, health issues etc. That is a very callous way of doing things – come on where is the compassion????? Or is compassion just one sided thing?

It will be nice if people knew how other sws have gotten on after their involvement with hcpc etc.

I wonder if these responses will be blown away in the wind like dust particles, or will any of them find their way to SWE.

The issues are that institutional racism is prominent in all of social care; children and adult services. Just like in the police force.

Anyone reading this whether Black or White will feel that I am being paranoid. I’ve been a social worker and worker in other social care provisions for nearly 30 years.

I’ve never experienced fitness to practice but I’ve had managers looking for ways to undermine my skills when I’ve been in the service longer than they have. I have peers reporting me to managers for the most trivial of reasons.

I’m nearly 60 so I know what I feel and what I have experienced.

Yep all down the line on this. Flawed article, is not the best evidence to win a argument for change.

They are clearly aware that Black, Asian And other ethnic minority groups are disproportionately subject to fitness to practice processes so they need to lead by example and really do deep analysis of each individuals case when they are referred by their employer. There are many cases where senior managers will lie to elevate their cases against a worker and even fabricate/ falsify information. This is a fact white Social Work managers do this and have done this, I have seen this first hand and other workers have reported this racist behaviour to me. These managers believe their White privilege takes precedence and that any information they present to a panel would be seen as truthful and honest even when the information is fabricated and false. These people continue to get promoted.

They really need to get the balance right when it comes to fitness to practice. For example they need a racial mixture of investigators , panels members and their rules need to be added to. As Social Work England remit isn’t to look at the employer or employee who makes the referral about Black Social Workers.

It’s also important because some white social workers/managers or worker are unable to leave their own personal values behind which are prejudice about particular racial groups and this become a serious problem if they sit on regulator panels etc.

Where there has been wrongdoings carried out by individuals within those social work organisations who have made referrals or involved in building a case against a social worker then Social Work England should be calling this out and should make recommendations to their employer to deal with those employees, just like judges do when Social work managers and social workers lie in child care proceedings. Or deliberately mishandled an employees cases during grievance or disciplinary process we know it’s not there remit but to ignore it, is seriously damaging. Or they become aware of wrongdoings during the course of their involvement/investigation that the employer has clearly operated in Racist, unethical or illegal way. Or brought a case that has no merit causing a impact on a social worker mental health.

If the employer isn’t aware of what these White Managers /social workers were doing then the employee need to be dealt with by the employer. This should be then reported back to Social Work England to deal with.

If Social Work England do not call these matters out they are also part of the problem and not part of the solution of systemic racial discrimination.

Social Work England need to have Black And Asian Workers And other Ethnic groups recruited at all levels of their organisation. Not two years from now it needs to start straight away. I’m not just talking about 1 or 2 tokenistic People of Colour either.
Finally we are not one racial group either, our experiences will be and are different.
Racial and Ethnic monitoring should be mandatory, we are clearly sick of excuses.

Tony Doulabi…… you make a point of something which I suspect is experienced by many, including myself. Often there is a lack of faith in the mechanisms put in place to address this situation, as historically these mechanisms have made little or no difference.