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Latest news, media releases, papers and other publications from Social Work England.
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Latest news from Social Work England

30/09/2021
Regulation
Social Work England Performance Review 2019 to 2020
The Professional Standards Authority (PSA) has published its review of our performance against their Standards of Good Regulation for the period 2 December 2019 to 30 November 2020.

07/09/2021
Board paper
Board papers - 10 September 2021
We are committed to openness and transparency. With this in view, we will publish our board papers online.

06/09/2021
Blog
New students, new social workers, new standards
With the start of the new academic year, we launch the new education and training standards, which we’ll use to assess over 80 social work education and training providers across England.

06/09/2021
Media release
Regulator sets out new standards for teaching social workers of tomorrow
Social Work England has launched a new set of education and training standards to ensure that the social workers of tomorrow have the skills to give the very best support to the public.

01/09/2021
Media release
Social workers should take three steps this September to renew registration
Applications for renewals opened to almost 100,000 social workers today. Those who want to stay on the register must apply to renew as soon as possible.