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Chief social worker to step down after decade in post

Community Care

Lyn Romeo will step down as England’s chief social worker for adults in January after just over a decade in the post. The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) said Romeo was taking retirement.

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5% of social workers have met CPD requirement as registration opens

Community Care

Just over 5% of social workers have met continuing professional development registration requirements as the three-month renewal period opens. Social Work England said 5,478 practitioners had submitted two pieces of CPD, detailing learning from reflecting on one of the pieces with a peer, equivalent to 5.5% CPD guidance.

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The 14 best books to read as a social worker

Save the Social Worker

Chances are, if you have a book on social work from university, you might have shelved it, never to read it again. And here I am telling you to read more social work books? If you want to get better at social work, serving the clients who come into our lives better, you need to read. What about in social work?

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12 Things I Learned from Teaching a New Class: Disaster Social Work – An Anti-Racist Lens

Social Work Futures

[link] Is all social work – “disaster social work” now? Slow disasters – like our variety of forms of structural violence in underfunded social care resources – and – fast disasters like pandemics, large scale climate events, and other cataclysmic events like oil spills and the like…all real.

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Quality of social work CPD ‘much higher’ than in previous year, says regulator

Community Care

The quality of social workers’ continuing professional development submissions was “much higher” in the last registration renewal round compared with the previous year. That was the message from Social Work England after the annual assessment of CPD submitted by a randomly selected sample of 2.5%

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Notes from the Future – March 14, 2023

Social Work Futures

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). Sometimes I turn these signals into interesting “Social Work Jobs of the Future” as another type of foresight practice (worldbuilding and artifacts from the future in the form of new job descriptions).

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Notes from the Future – February 17, 2023

Social Work Futures

This is part of a monthly series of posts to share a few things each month that I run across regarding the future of social work (and beyond). The future of social issues “The Need to Protect the Data in our Brains” is a fascinating read dives into the futures of privacy and rapidly expanding neurotech applications.

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