HCPC social work re-registration
The window of time to renew your registration with the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) opens on 1 September.
How can Community Care help?
1. Keep up to date with relevant events in the news: Read a Community Care article
2. Use an academic guide on Inform to brush up your understanding of research or case law
4. Use our CPD log tool to keep track of your progress and record activities that count towards your continuing professional development
This will be the first time social workers have renewed in the new system since the registration and regulation of social workers in England changed on 1 August 2012, when the Health and Care Professions Council took over responsibility for the social care register.
This changed the way that continuing professional development (CPD) is approached. Alongside the renewal of social workers’ registration, the HCPC will be auditing the CPD profiles of a random sample of 2.5% of all the social workers in England.
Any social worker who does not complete the re-registration process by 30 November will no longer be able to practise legally as a social worker. Make sure you understand how to show your continuing professional development and complete your renewal online using our guides below:
Inspection and regulation, Workforce
HCPC under attack over claimed breaches of social workers’ human rights
Workforce, Inspection and regulation
Last chance to renew your HCPC registration and protect your title
Inspection and regulation, Workforce
The HCPC answers your queries about social worker registration fees
Workforce, Inspection and regulation
HCPC re-registration opens today: don’t forget to renew and protect your title
Social work leaders
Chief social workers: ‘visible leadership’ needed to tackle race discrimination in profession 
Adequate funding across spectrum of children’s needs ‘crucial’ to better outcomes and savings – DfE study Job of the week
Community Care Inform
Motivational interviewing: what it is and how you can use it in social work 
Looked-after children and self-harm: new podcast Employer Profiles
West Sussex County Council Employer Zone
‘We want to tell children that we are doing everything we can to keep them with their family’ 
“We need to be kinder to ourselves and our workforce” 
How social work expertise is helping children find stable homes 
Disability is no barrier to working in social care 
A helping hub for young people about to leave care 
‘It’s every social worker’s dream – they listen to your ideas and let you try them’ 
Employer zone – showcasing a selection of the sector’s top recruiters
‘Let’s mix things up in children’s residential care’ 
Children, young people and families are at the heart of all we do at Northamptonshire Children’s Trust 
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