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- Maths requirements We do not currently specify a standard for maths. Course providers may set their own admission requirements for maths if these are appropriate to the level and content of the social work course. These are usually pre-16 qualifications, such as GCSE maths, or equivalents.
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The standards are the threshold standards necessary for safe and effective practice. After engaging with thousands of professionals, our standards reflect the value and diversity of social work practice and the positive impact it has on people’s lives, families and communities.
- Professional Standards Guidance
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- Education and Training Standards
The learning environment must provide education and training...
- Our Role and Legislation
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- Professional Standards Guidance
This document provides guidance on Social Work England’s qualifying education and training standards. These are the standards against which we will assess and approve social work education and training courses. The aim is to ensure that students who successfully complete a social work course can meet our professional standards and can apply to be
The learning environment must provide education and training opportunities that enable students to develop their skills and knowledge across all areas of social work, gain required experience in practice settings and meet the professional standards in supportive, supervised and safe settings.
- Pastoral Support For Students
- Minimum Number of Placement Days
- Increased Admissions Requirements
- Standards ‘Do Not Go Far Enough’
Social Work England’s new standards require educators to ensure students “have effective educational and pastoral support to progress through their course and meet the professional standards when they qualify”. The regulator’s previous standards included no requirements on social work education providers to do this. Under the new requirements, educ...
The new standards require providers to ensure that students spend at least 200 days, including up to 30 skills days, on placement in at least two different practice settings that provide contrasting experiences. At least one of these must be a statutory setting and provide students with experience of sufficient numbers of statutory social work task...
Social Work England has also strengthened the requirements that prospective social workers should meet to be admitted to courses. Unlike previously, education providers must ensure prospective students are able “to use information and communication technology methods and techniques to achieve course outcomes”. Applicants must also “have the potenti...
Despite the tougher requirements, academic leaders said the standards would not challenge providers as they reflected how courses were already run. Dr Janet Melville-Wiseman, chair of Joint University Council Social Work Education Committee, (JUCSWEC), said courses had been run in line with the then Department of Health’s Requirements for Social Wo...
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The regulatory standards of Social Work England are the threshold (minimum) standards considered necessary for safe and effective practice. These professional standards set out what a social worker in England must know, understand and be able to do after completing their social work education or training. They
Introduction. This document sets out the standards of proficiency. These standards set out safe and effective practice in the professions we regulate. They are the threshold standards we consider necessary to protect members of the public.
Mathematics for social work: Recommendations from professional organizations and sample requirements from U.S. institutions of higher education. The state of social work education and careers in the U.S.
