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Last updated: 8 July 2026

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• Gender pay gap reports

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• Our statement of intent

• Who we work with

Standards

Professional standards

• Professional standards for social workers

Education and training standards

• Education and training standards

• Education and training standards for approved mental health professional (AMHP) courses

• Education and training standards for best interest assessors (BIA) courses

Detailed guidance

• AMHP education and training standards guidance

• BIA education and training standards guidance

• Our professional standards guidance

• Our 2021 education and training standards guidance

• Our 2019 education and training standards guidance

• Practice placement guidance

• The assessment of social work students guidance

Registration

Manage your registration

• Online account (guide)

• Apply for registration

• Apply to renew your registration

• Registration fees

  • How to pay your registration fees

  • Removal due to non-payment of fees

• When to make a self-referral

• Request an annotation to the register (AMHP and BIA)

• Practise outside England

• List of overseas qualifications

• EU enforceable rights

• Request to leave the register

• Tell us about the death of a social worker

Restoration and returning to practice

• Update your skills and knowledge

• Periods of adaptation

• Apply for a qualification verification letter

  • Eligible qualifications

Overseas applicants

• Overseas applicant guidance

• List of overseas qualifications

• Overseas application data

Employers

• Information for employers

• What each registration status means

• Guide to the register

Students and people who are not registered

• Information for students and graduates

• Misuse of the title 'social worker'

• Information for social workers on another UK register

• Visiting European professionals

• Appeal a registration decision

Detailed guidance

• Applying to join the register (UK)

• Applying to join the register (outside the UK)

  • Knowledge of English

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• Applying for restoration

• Emerging concerns protocol – a process for sharing information in relation to fitness to practise concerns

• Fees

• Leaving the register voluntarily

• Practise outside England

• Periods of adaptation

• Renewing your registration

• Registration with conditions

• Registration appeals

• Registration annotations (AMHP and BIA)

• Safe and effective practice and fitness to practise self-referrals

• Tests of competence

Relevant policies

• Temporary practice policy

• Prosecution policy

CPD

CPD requirements and registration

• Guide on how to record CPD

• What you need to know

• Peer reflection

• The CPD standard

• Standard 4.1: feedback

• Standard 4.2: supervision

• Standard 4.3: research, theories and models

• Standard 4.4: knowledge of current issues

• Standard 4.5: open learning culture

• Standard 4.6: reflection

• Standard 4.7: recording CPD

• Standard 4.8: ethics and values

• What counts as CPD?

• Types of CPD

• Advice for social workers not in direct practice

• CPD review

• CPD examples

Detailed guidance

• Continuing professional development (CPD) guidance for social workers

Education and training

Search approved courses

• Search for an approved course

Information for providers

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours statements

• Education and training standards

• Education and training standards for AMHP courses 

• Education and training standards for BIA courses

• Request approval for a new course

• Annual monitoring

• Make changes to an existing course

• Approval of new AMHP courses

• Evidence mapping forms

• Reapprovals

• Inspections

• Tell us about a course closure

Information for students and graduates

• Information for students and graduates

Raise a concern about a course

• Raise a concern about an approved course

Reports

• Inspection and course change reports

• Historical courses

Social Work Education and Training Advisory Forum (ETAF)

• About the Education and Training Advisory Forum

• Terms of reference

• Membership of ETAF

Practice education

• Practice education forums

• Practice education survey

Education and training publications

• Preparing for practice: social work in education in England

• Practice educator training landscape

• Practice education in England

• Social work in education and training in England in 2020 to 2021

• Annual monitoring report

Detailed guidance

• Annual monitoring – guidance for completing

• AMHP education and training standards guidance 

• Approval of qualifying social work courses 

• Assessment of social work students

• Education and training approval standards for best interest assessor (BIA) courses 

• How to raise a concern about an approved course 

• Make a change to an existing qualifying social work course 

• Practice placements

• Qualifying education and training standards (2021)

Concerns

Raise a concern about a social worker

• Raise a concern about a social worker

Hearing listings and decisions

• Hearing listings and decisions

Before you raise a concern (for members of the public)

• What we mean by fitness to practise

• Make a complaint to a social worker's employer

• Get support to raise a concern

• If your concern is not about a social worker

• What happens after you have raised a concern

Referrals (for employers and other organisations)

• Refer a concern about an employee

• Fitness to practice guidance for employers

• Refer a concern about a social worker (other organisations)

• Emerging concerns protocol

• Our fair referrals principles

How we deal with concerns

• What we do when we receive a new concern

• How we investigate concerns

• What interim orders are and why we have them

• Automatic removal

• What happens after an investigation

• Case examiner decisions

• Hearings

• Voluntary removal

• Voluntary removal decisions

• What happens after a fitness to practise decision

• Power to review case examiner decisions

Support (for people involved in fitness to practise proceedings)

• Support for people involved in fitness to practise proceedings

• Guide for social workers under investigation

• Fitness to Practise Support Service

Detailed guidance (for social workers)

• Attendance of people at fitness to practise hearings

• Communicating online: guidance for social workers

• Early reviews

• Evidence given outside of the UK

• Fitness to practise guide

• Health concerns

• Hearings for social workers

• Interim orders for social workers

• Self-represented social workers at hearings

• Suspended social workers

Detailed guidance (for witnesses, members of the public and employers)

• Fitness to practise guidance for employers

• Hearings for witnesses

• How we use personal information when considering concerns

• Supervisors and reporters

• Supporting vulnerable witnesses

Detailed guidance on how we make decisions

• Adjudicator conflicts of interest policy

• Adjudicator consensual disposal guidance

• Adjudicators for registration appeals

• Case examiner conflicts of interest

• Case examiners guidance

• Decision making guidance – concerns relating to social workers communicating online

• Discontinuance 

• Emerging concerns protocol - sharing information in relation to fitness to practise concerns

• Equality and diversity: reasonable adjustments (disabilities)

• Fitness to practise glossary of terms

• Fitness to practise conditions bank

• Fitness to practise flowchart

• Impairment and sanctions guidance

• Just disposal of transfer cases

• Maintaining the independence of case examiners

• Postponements and adjournments of fitness to practise hearings

• Power to review case examiner decisions (guidance for case examiners)

• Pre-hearing case management

• Referrals for consideration of an interim order

• Remote hearings protocol

• Restoration to the register after removal orders

• Service of notices and proceeding in the absence of social worker

• Triage guidance

• Voluntary removal during fitness to practise proceedings

Relevant policies

• Criteria for the appointment of legal advisers

• Drink and drug driving policy

• Prosecution policy

• Publications policy

• Witness expense policy

• Empanelment, scheduling and cancellation policy

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