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Registration of Student Social Workers
Care Standards Act (2003)Codes of Practice for Social Care Workers– 2 strive to establish
and maintain trust– 5 uphold public trust
and confidence
Employers not mandatorySeen as a good thing
Fitness to Practice Process
Professional misconduct or unsuitabilityAllegation appoint investigatorPanel hearing – 4 members: profession, school, faculty, outside faculty chairRange of outcomes from NFA to removal from programme‘the balance of probabilities’Appeals process
GSCC (2002, 5.8)
Behave in a way, in work or outside work, which would call into question suitability to work in social care services
FTTP Internal Programme Issues
Catherine – doesn’t want to take up placement
Lyla- child-care arrangements
FTTP – External Issues
Mohammed – gross misconduct – social care employer
Jenna- drinking and causing an accident
Other issues
PlagiarismThresholdsLeaving programme to avoid investigationPartner schedule one offender‘Inappropriate relationships’Support from university- chair
ConcernsShrouded in secrecyNo way of ensuring equity between courses –either in terms of equal identification or treatment of similar issuesSome courses too many others too few?Differing degrees of professionalism at different stages of courseSurveillance cultureIs it once and for all
Recommendations
Audit of student social workers FTPPublication of details of numbers, types of students most at risk, issues investigated and outcomesResearch as to issues for FTP and promotion of a professional debate to promote a consensus on how to assessIssue for annual monitoringDebate with other professions
