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Social work leaders, Workforce

Fitness to practise delays set to rise further due to Social Work England budget pressures

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Workforce

Does discrimination play a role in fitness to practise processes?

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Black, male and 40-plus social workers disproportionately subject to fitness to practise process

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England bids to tackle systemic causes of fitness to practise issues in new strategy

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Senior practitioner loses bid to keep court judgment that he abused ex-partner from Social Work England

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Adults, Children

Social work regulations set to change following consultation

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Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work England

Social work leaders, Workforce

8% of social workers have shared diversity data with regulator

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Philip Hallam, Social Work England

Social work leaders, Workforce

Updated: Social Work England rule changes in detail

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Social work leaders, Workforce

Less than 1% of social workers reported to regulator referred to hearing or found to have fitness to practise issues

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Adults, Children, Social work leaders

DfE gives regulator £2.3m to help clear fitness to practise backlog

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Workforce

Researchers to study witnesses’ experiences of fitness to practise hearings

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Colum Conway, chief executive, Social Work England

Social work leaders, Workforce

Social Work England missed standards on fitness to practice referrals, registration speed and diversity data in first year

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Children, Workforce

Regulator calls for debate on social media use after warning social worker for ‘anti-trans’ posts

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Fitness to practise hearing

Workforce

Social worker struck off after obtaining details on future step-children

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