The time is now OVERDUE for a registration authority to initiate a review of that which existed before and has been allowed to die.
For a number of years I recruited SWs principally from Zimbabwe and Romania. In those days there was no skype so it was live interviews here in the UK necessitating the need to get visitor visas and find money for fares etc. I reckon I had about a 90% success rate at interviews. I insisted o employers committing themselves to an induction spread over about six months. There would always be a relocation package specific to their needs. Emphasis was also placed on te fact that international recruitment involved bringing families to the UK. In particular Romanians have done rather well with several now being Directors with a signifiant number of others in Assistant Director or simlar posts….having spent twenty years of their lives working for this country. The UK continues to promote reverse colonisation by buying trained and skilled staff from developing countries whose own needs are rarely met because of migration. The same happens in the medical and health sector…and others.
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Sadly such is the state and management of social work in the UK, hence the difficulties local authorities have in recruitment and retention. Poor support for Social Workers