The two-year updating of social work post-qualifying training is nearly completed with the publication of the proposed framework.
If adopted – the proposals are to be consulted on for six weeks – the new post-qualifying framework will be introduced in early 2006. The three new awards are in specialist social work, higher specialist social work and advanced social work.
The England Post-qualifying Consortia welcomed it, but had concerns about the abolition of a certificate awarded to people under the current system one-third of the way through their courses.
It said the proposals for the new system did not contain any equivalent mid-course awards which recognised workers’ progress when they couldn’t complete the courses.
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