Within the report revealed final week, the PSA praised Social Work England for its engagement with the sector since changing into regulator, saying different organisations had given it constructive suggestions on this.
‘Encouraging begin’
It stated it had “engaged constructively with suggestions and…proven dedication to enchancment”, and, within the context of the pandemic, had made “encouraging begin” to its function as regulator.
The PSA stated that Social Work England had met its health to practise (FtP) requirements in relation to elevating considerations, truthful investigations, acceptable decision-making processes and efficient participation.
It additionally acknowledged the extreme challenges the regulator confronted in its first yr as a result of influence of the pandemic on its skill to course of FtP circumstances, higher-than-expected referrals and the state of the 1,545 circumstances it inherited from the Well being and Care Professions Council (HCPC). Social Work England discovered simply 10% of circumstances that the HCPC recognized as able to schedule for a listening to to be full, regardless of the typical age of the legacy circumstances being nearly a yr.
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