28th Sep. 2023
Online Webinar on Regulating Social Work Profession in South East Asia Speakers: Dr. C. J. Paul, Past President, Professional Social Workers’ Association, Chennai, India & Mr. Amarawansa Ranaweera, Past President, Sri Lanka Association of Professional Social Workers | Please click the following links to view their presentations
8 & 9 June 2023
Young Carers Voices – International perspectives
COMMONWEALTH YOUNG CARER WEBINAR – 8 & 9 JUNE 2023
2023 is the Commonwealth Year of Youth and with the development of the first Commonwealth Young Carers Charter, it has the potential to be a landmark year. There has also been significant progress in the recognition of the need for more young carers support in countries around the world.
To mark these developments, young carers and organisations from around the world came together across two days in June to hear the voices of young carers and organisations that are supporting them.
Recording of the webinar on both days and copies of presentations
https://carers.org/home/young-carers-voices
27 March 2023
How did Social Worker Registration in England Come About? FIRST WEBINAR IN A COMMONWEALTH SERIES ON REGULATION OF SOCIAL WORk
An online witness seminar hosted by the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce, The Policy Institute, King’s College London.
Social workers in England were first required to register with a regulatory body following the Care Standards Act 2000 which led to the establishment of the General Social Care Council (GSCC) in 2001. This was followed by the closure in 2002 of the Central Council for Education and Training in Social Work (CCETSW), the regulator and awarding body for social work education programmes (then at diploma level) and awarding body for social care qualifications. As David N Jones explains, this significant change followed a long campaign by the British Association of Social Workers (BASW) and others. The ambition of those who supported the innovation was to set out the principles and values of social work to inform the public and against which social workers could be held to account. The establishment of a regulatory body also put social work on an equal footing with many other professional groups. However, over the last two decades this has remained a contested area of policy marked by ongoing changes including to the regulatory body itself and the eventual creation of Social Work England in 2019.
This was the first in an occasional series of webinars co-ordinated by COSW examining the development of and current arrangements for regulation of social work and social workers in different Commonwealth countries.
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/how-did-social-worker-registration-in-england-come-about
5 aPRIL 2022
Event Page
Session Recording
31 mARCH & 1 aPRIL 2022
*Conference has been jointly organised by the Commonwealth Organisation for Social Work and the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
To know more, please visit the conference web page https://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/event/25888
Recordings of the sessions are now available to view
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