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GSCC launch professional boundaries guidance for social workers
On 21 November 2011 we launched professional boundaries guidance for social workers and social work students. Following the continual monitoring of cases that result in social workers appearing at conduct hearings, we found one issue that frequently resulted in such appearances has been social workers breaching professional boundaries.
To help us decide what we could best do to help address this issue we commissioned two pieces of research, one involving focus groups with service users and one involving a review of available literature on this subject. The key messages from these research reports were, firstly, the considerable harm that professional boundaries violations can have on service users and, secondly, the inadvisability of attempting to address this problem through issuing a list of ‘dos’ and ‘don’ts’.
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Social Work Connections – the newsletter for social workers and students
As most of you will be aware, the General Social Care Council’s regulatory powers are being transferred over to the Health Professions Council (HPC) from 31 July 2012, subject to Royal Assent.
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A retrospective on a career in social work
My name is Mark Doel and I qualified as a social worker in 1974. My career has taken me through direct practice, teaching, training, researching and writing, and I feel lucky to have experienced such a wide range of social work roles.
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Clearer understanding needed between the roles of regulator and professional body
Half of the respondents to our last Social Work Connections poll said they do not have a clear understanding of the differences between the role of the regulator and a professional body.
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