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Chair's Welcome

Rosie Varley, Chair of the GSCCThere have been a number of significant developments for the GSCC since the last edition. One of these has been the publication of the Government’s Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy, announcing that GSCC registration will be extended to home care workers in 2010. This is a major step forward in improving the standards of care and protection for people receiving care services in their home.

 

There has also been a welcome commitment from the Department of Health to funding for a programme for newly qualified social workers working in adults’ services, similar to the one being piloted this year in children’s services. Read on for more information about these schemes and to find out what social workers think about them. 

 

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Laming and social work taskforce proposals
June 2009
At the end of 2008 the Government took two important initiatives to boost social work in England. It asked Lord Laming to look at the state of child protection work and it set up a taskforce to look at social work in general, across services for adults, children and families. Both were tasked with making recommendations to transform practice

 

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Are you looking to return to social work?
June 2009
Coming soon: CWDC Return to Social Work Pilot Programme

Calling all graduates – get registered!
June 2009
Photo of mortar boards with blue sky in background. Photo: Naveen Kumar Congratulations if you have, or are about to, successfully complete your social work degree this summer.

GSCC Annual Conference
June 2009

GSCC to register home care workers
June 2009
Registered social worker with boy in a wheelchair. Photo: John Birdsall. The Department of Health’s Adult Social Care Workforce Strategy, published on 23 April 2009, announced that the GSCC will extend registration to home care workers from early 2010.

Implementing the Mental Capacity Act
June 2009
Registered social worker with young person who uses services. Photo: John Birdsall The Mental Capacity Act (MCA) has been in force in England and Wales since 2007. It applies to those working in health and social care who are involved in the care, treatment and support of people aged 16 and over who are unable to make all, or some, decisions for themselves.

Introducing... MyGSCC
June 2009
Image of an Apple Mac monitor with MyGSCC written on it We are pleased to introduce an online, self-service portal for registrants – ‘MyGSCC’.

SCIE information for newly qualified social workers
June 2009
Image of SCIE’s logo’ Newly qualified social workers (NQSWs) will help to shape the future of social care.

Social care employer support is vital
June 2009
Employer helping staff member with computer. Photo: UPPA’ Social workers need to be well supported by their employers with good quality training and supervision so that they can carry out their work to high standards in line with the GSCC’s Code of Practice for Social Care Workers.

Support for newly qualified social workers
June 2009
Registered social worker holding registration certificate. Photo: Still Waters Run Deep Training for social workers begins with the Social Work Degree and it is vital that it continues throughout their careers.

C4EO launches ‘one stop shop’ for children’s services
March 2009
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) is a dynamic new organisation, developed for the children’s sector, from the children’s sector.

Could you be an Accolades 2009 winner?
March 2009
Accolades 2009 logo The Accolades was first launched in 2003 to commend and celebrate best practice in social care workforce development.

Draft outcome statements for newly qualified social workers in adult services
March 2009
Picture of a social worker and an older man in conversation on a sofa. Photo: John Birdsall The Department of Health is working with Skills for Care, the GSCC and SCIE to develop a newly-qualified social worker (NQSW) scheme for social work in adult services. A similar framework is being introduced for NQSWs in children’s services.

 
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Polls

To be completed by registered social workers only.

Would you feel able to report to your employer concerns about another colleague's practice?

Yes
No


If not is this because you are concerned about:

victimisation
personal reprisals
negative effect on your career
other


Do you feel confident your employer would take action if you spoke up?

Yes
No


If you have reported concerns about either a colleague or operational difficulties, did your employer take any action?

Yes
No



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