by Allan Norman

In an idle moment, I reviewed the job titles offered by the nearly 300 delegates to BASW England's conference last week. It's less than scientific, but I reckon to have found 131 different job titles, or one for every 2.3 delegates.

Startlingly, just 29 of those titles appeared to be protected titles. To put it another way, that's 78% of the job titles that fall outside of the scope of the protection of title provisions in section 61(1)(a) of the Care Standards Act 2000.

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