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Site map for the Social Work England website
Site map for the Social Work England website
Last updated: 8 August 2022
Search
- Search the website
- Search the register for a social worker
- Search the register for multiple social workers
- Search for an approved social work course
Using the website
About
Careers
- Jobs
- Why you should join us
- Application and interview process
- Our behaviours and values
- What our people say
Who we are
Engagement
Publications, consultations and research
How we operate
Information access requests
Equality, diversity and inclusion
- Equality, diversity and inclusion action plan
- Our statement of intent
- What we mean by equality, diversity and inclusion
- What we have done so far
- Why equality, diversity and inclusion matter to us
- Equality, diversity and inclusion steering group
- Our ambitions for 2020 to 2023
- Gender pay gap reports
Contact us
Standards
Professional standards
Education and training standards
Detailed guidance
- Detailed guidance on our professional standards
- Detailed guidance on our 2021 education and training standards
- Detailed guidance on our 2019 education and training standards
- Detailed guidance on the assessment of students
- Detailed guidance on practice placement
Registration
Manage your registration
- Online account (guide)
- Apply for registration
- Apply to renew your registration
- Registration 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
- Apply for restoration
- Update your skills and knowledge
- Periods of adaptation
- Apply for a qualification verification letter
Employers
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
- COVID-19 temporary registration
- EU exit
Detailed guidance
- Detailed guidance on applying to join the register (UK)
- Detailed guidance on applying to join the register (outside the UK)
- Detailed guidance on applying for restoration
- Detailed guidance on renewing your registration
- Detailed guidance on fees
- Detailed guidance on safe and effective practice and fitness to practise self-referrals
- Detailed guidance on practising outside England
- Detailed guidance on leaving the register voluntarily
- Detailed guidance on registration with conditions
- Detailed guidance on temporary registration (coronavirus)
- Detailed guidance on periods of adaptation
- Detailed guidance on tests of competence
- Detailed guidance on registration appeals
- Detailed guidance on gender identity
- Detailed guidance on registration annotations (AMHP and BIA)
- Detailed guidance on sharing information with other regulators (emerging concerns protocol)
Relevant policies
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
- Types of CPD
- Advice for social workers not in direct practice
- CPD examples
Detailed guidance
Education and training
Search approved courses
Information for providers
- Education and training standards
- Request approval for a new course
- Annual monitoring
- Make changes to an existing course
- Approval of new AMHP courses
- Evidence mapping forms
- BIA courses
- Reapprovals
- Inspections
- Tell us about a course closure
- Education providers' responses to COVID-19
Information for students and graduates
Raise a concern about a course
Reports
Detailed guidance
- Detailed guidance on the 2021 education and training standards
- Detailed guidance on the 2019 education and training standards
- Detailed guidance on course approvals
- Detailed guidance on course changes
- Detailed guidance on annual monitoring
- Detailed guidance on the assessment of students
- Detailed guidance on practice placements
- Detailed guidance on AMHP courses
- Detailed guidance on how to raise a concern about an approved course
Concerns
Raise a concern about a social worker
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 raise 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
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
- What happens after a fitness to practise decision
Support (for people involved in fitness to practise proceedings)
- Support for people involved in fitness to practise proceedings
- Guide for social workers under investigation
Detailed guidance (for social workers)
- Fitness to practise guide
- Detailed guidance for suspended social workers
- Detailed guidance on hearings for social workers
- Detailed guidance on health concerns
- Detailed guidance on early reviews
- Detailed guidance for self-represented social workers at hearings
- Detailed guidance on conduct of representatives
Detailed guidance (for witnesses, members of the public and employers)
- Detailed guidance on how we use personal information
- Detailed guidance on hearings for witnesses
- Detailed guidance on supporting witnesses (special measures)
- Detailed guidance for employers
- Detailed guidance for supervisors and reporters
Detailed guidance on how we make decisions
- Fitness to practise glossary of terms
- Fitness to practise conditions bank
- Detailed guidance on equality and diversity (fitness to practise)
- Detailed guidance on sanctions
- Detailed guidance on just disposal of transfer cases
- Detailed guidance on adjudicator conflicts of interest
- Detailed guidance for adjudicators for registration appeals
- Detailed guidance on pre-hearing case management
- Detailed guidance for the triage team
- Detailed guidance for case examiners
- Detailed guidance on referrals for interim orders
- Detailed guidance on case examiner conflicts of interest
- Detailed guidance on maintaining the independence of case examiners
- Detailed guidance on postponements and adjournments
- Detailed guidance on service of notices and proceeding in the absence of social worker
- Detailed guidance on restoration to the register after removal order
- Detailed guidance on drafting fitness to practise decisions
- Detailed guidance on sharing information with other regulators (emerging concerns protocol)
- Detailed guidance on discontinuance
Relevant policies
- Criteria for the appointment of legal advisers
- Prosecution policy
- Publications policy
- Witness expense policy
- Empanelment, scheduling and cancellation policy
News (all)
Media centre
Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- Information for social workers (COVID-19)
- Information for employers (COVID-19)
- Fitness to practise (COVID-19)
- Information for education and training providers (COVID-19)
- Education providers' response to COVID-19
- Information for students (COVID-19)