The Open University have announced that the BA (Honours) Social Work (Wales) has been re-approved by the Care Council for Wales, meeting all the regulatory requirements. The submission to the
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Report of Sir Martin Narey’s independent review of the education of children’s social workers. The Secretary of State for Education asked Sir Martin Narey to review the initial education of
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Universities are producing social workers who are “inadequately prepared”, the government’s advisor on children’s social care has said in a highly critical report. Sir Martin Narey was asked to look
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If you want to help and support people in the community, this could be a great job for you. Social work assistants help qualified social workers. The clients you work
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Plans to spend millions of pounds on 48 new PCSOs have been scrapped in favour of a social worker led early intervention scheme. Lancashire County Council’s previous Tory administration had
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It was a pleasure to interview Shelley Craig and Barbara Muskat about hospital social work this week. Their research is published in an article called Bouncers, Brokers, and Glue: The
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I have officially been at work for a few weeks now and it was quite an exciting, overwhelming and frustrating experience full of meeting various team members, signing up for
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If you want to make a positive difference in the community, a career as a social worker could be a perfect choice for you. To become a social worker you
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Care Appointments meets two men who’ve made the transition from Social Care to Social Work… So just what exactly is Accreditation of Prior Experiential Learning (APEL)? In basic terms, it’s
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