I made a Freedom of information request to Social Work England and I was horrified and shocked to learn that majority of those that review CPDs are not qualified social workers and have zero training in social work. I also learnt from the same Freedom of information request that those who carry out fitness for practice investigations are a mixture of professionals from other professions and a few qualified social workers. How can a person with no training in social work and has never knocked a door of vulnerable service users or a door of an aggressive parent carry out a credible investigation? How can a person with no social work qualification review our CDPs? Social Work England has many flaws and should be replaced with a social work run regulator. If you have been following the news the Nursing regulator has been accused of racism but I think Social work England has very many structural and oppressive issues that need to be looked into. SWE doesn’t know what they are doing and labour government needs to replace it immediately.

Totally Agree. I have written to SWE on this issue last month and waiting on their response, though my letter has been acknowledged

My registration has therefore not been required for four years, but I maintain it to keep options open and it has always been important to me.

The CPD is rather bizarre, adminsitrative process whereby I chose a free, LSCP course which I am able to attend, and write a short piece on what I’ve learnt from it; the proforma doesn’t seem to envisage that traning can not be very good (even if there’s a constructive write up of how the training wasn’t helpful or wasn’t evidence based etc).

So I always talk this up.

Reasonably, whilst the proforma is gearerd towards practicing social workers there’s literally no informaton about how I should strucutre this as an employed person working outside of social work.

As my current role invovles a great deal of safeguarding that’s not an issue in my specfic circumstances, but it would be problematic for many others.

As far as I can see, someone unemployed or working in a completely different role i.e. as an estate agent would be entitled to re-register but the process seems to make absolutely no sense in this regard, and one thinks the profession should be encouraging people to remain in practice.

For anyway not anyone no in paid employment and without access to relevant training the whole thing would be really difficult.

What I didn’t realise until this week as that if registration lapses then the process to re-register is far more onerous (scanning passports and certificates etc), and after two years necessairly would involve either a university-based return to practice course (there don’t seem to be that many of these) or some sort of unpaid social work work expierence with SWE offering no support in arranging this (which should take at least 210 hours! ‘Private study’ is an option but only for half the hours. This requirement is barely adveritsed unless you specfically search this information out. For many this would be literally impossible due to the time and logistical commitments. It seems inexcusable that people just have to stumble across this information rather than it being clearly outlined to Social Workers at the point of re-registration.

So I guess I will just continue this rather pointless cycle every year.

Social Workers and those depending on their services deserve much better.

2 peer evaluation from heath colleague on my work practice in CHC meeting as a SW in DST meetings. Managing conflict, process and out comes.

3 domestic abuse. Where is the one third that are missing and why.

I have allways dislike Cpd,and the word gets tacked on to any training, meeting 》 learning.
Waiting till end November to see that like passover, the angels of scrutiny flown past,for another year,and my accountability is turned back to the day job and supervision and case progress and out come
The long arm of the SWE to pin jelly to the ceiling ,through conformity of task,meeting standards is good,but I know I can justify the critirea, in the diversity of submissions. But does that make me a good Sw.?.who knows.
Let face it,being top banana CpD submissions is not the same, as be be a good Sw as that is measured by so many factors that are out of our control. Public view,the family view and out come.

I hope my messure is more than vernier.
And, all as good as out last disaster.