The College of Social Work has launched a new continuing professional development training guide which is designed to improve and standardise social worker training in fostering and adoption. The College’s
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A new website aims to help them through the graduate application process and into a top job In the UK, nearly one in 10 university students classes themselves as having
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The College of Social Work (TCSW) has published good practice advice for social workers working with people with learning disabilities and mental health conditions to help improve standards following the
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A consultation has been launched to look at new ways of funding placements for social work students to make sure money is spent most efficiently and provides students with excellent
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It’s sometimes thought that undergraduate life is too closeted to provide any real preparation for the world of work. One career path that illustrates this neatly is social work. How
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The College of Social Work has launched an endorsement scheme for higher education institutions aimed at providing a kite mark of quality to qualifying social work degree programmes. The scheme
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People with lived experience of using support services can now qualify in peer support brokerage, one of the care sector’s up-and-coming professions from their own homes. The online course developed
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The OU’s pre-registration nursing course has been described as a “dream come true” for health care assistants wanting to train as nurses in remote areas. Often faced with having to
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A new course providing healthcare professionals with specialist knowledge to improve services for patients with inflammatory arthritis is to be launched by The Open University. The self-study course was funded
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Voluntary organisations across Scotland’s social care sector are to benefit from a £1 million investment in staff training from the Scottish Government. Minister for Children and Young People Aileen Campbell
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