The Family Rights Group charity is warning that social work students are graduating without the skills they need to prevent another Baby P, according to the Standard.
It warned of "lax standards" on social work courses.
Is this really the case? I'd be interested to hear from students/tutors/managers.
On a different note, it sometimes makes me feel rather uncomfortable when I hear charities slagging off social workers. After all you don't necessarily need any qualifications to work for a charity.
Is this really the case? I'd be interested to hear from students/tutors/managers.
On a different note, it sometimes makes me feel rather uncomfortable when I hear charities slagging off social workers. After all you don't necessarily need any qualifications to work for a charity.
The Family Rights Group need to publish research in order to back up their claims that; social work students do not have the skills they need to 'do the job'.
Every social work student is given a different placement experience depending on availability. Surely, practice teachers are more capable than academics when assessing whether social work students have BASIC skills they will need, once qualified.
It's easy to pop a shot at the universities and students - as you say, I'm not sure how helpful it is. But on a more serious matter, I honestly think the GSCC needs to separate the social work degree from the professional qualification of 'social worker' which should need some post-qualification training perhaps. The universities try to pack the courses up so they can claim the funding and they aren't necessarily as invested in producing social workers who are immediately ready to practice automatically on graduation.