Social Work England

{{Infobox government agency

| name = Social Work England

| type =

| jurisdiction = Government of the United Kingdom

| chief1_name = Colum Conway

| chief1_position = Chief Executive and Accounting Officer

| chief2_name = Andrew McCulloch

| chief2_position = Chair of the Board

| parent_agency = Department for Education

}}

Social Work England (SWE) is the profession regulator for social workers in England. SWE operates as a non-departmental public body.{{Sfn|Social Work England|2023|p=7}}

History

= Predecessors =

In 1970, the Central Council for the Education and Training of Social Workers (CCETSW) was established in the UK with a specific remit to promote the quality of social work training and education. The CCETSW remained in place until the passing of the Care Standards Act 2000 that required for the first time that all social workers in England be registered, and thus obligated them to abide by the standards and rules of the new regulator, the General Social Care Council (GSCC).{{Sfn|Hanley|2022|p=48-49}}

= Formation =

In the 2016 report Children’s Social Care Reform: A Vision for Change, the Department for Education announced their intention to create a new regulatory organisation for social workers in England that would come to be SWE.{{Sfn|Hanley|2022|p=49}}

Social Work England was established under the Children and Social Work Act 2017.{{Sfn|Social Work England|2023|p=7}} In December 2019, Social Work England officially took over as the regulator for social workers in England.{{Sfn|Hanley|2022|p=48}}

Governance

= List of Chairs =

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" \|+ !No !Image !Chair !Term !Term length !Ref(s)
1 \|File:Official portrait of Lord Patel of Bradford crop 2.jpg \| style="text-align:left;" \|Kamlesh Patel \|19 March 2018{{Spaced en dash}}28 February 2023 \|{{age in years, months and days\|2018\|03\|19\|2023\|02\|28\|sc=y}} \|{{Cite news \|date=12 January 2020 \|title=Kamlesh Kumar Patel Baron Patel of Bradford OBE \|url=https://issuu.com/asiansundaynewspaper/docs/asbradford_january_2020_v2 \|work=Asian Sunday \|location=Bradford \|page=8 \|via=Issuu}}{{Sfn\|Social Work England\|2023\|p=44}}
2 \|{{Spaced en dash}} \| style="text-align:left;" \|Andrew McCulloch \|1 March 2023{{Spaced en dash}}Present \|{{age in years, months and days\|2023\|03\|01\|sc=y}} \|{{Sfn\|Social Work England\|2023\|p=44}}{{Cite news \|last=Samuel \|first=Mithran \|date=27 September 2024 \|title=Social Work England: interim chair gets role on substantive basis \|url=https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/27/social-work-england-interim-chair-gets-role-on-substantive-basis/ \|work=Community Care \|publisher=MA Education \|access-date=4 October 2024 \|archive-date=28 September 2024 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240928203735/https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/27/social-work-england-interim-chair-gets-role-on-substantive-basis/ \|url-status=live }}

class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"

!No

!Image

!Chair

!Term

!Term length

!Ref(s)

|File:Official portrait of Lord Patel of Bradford crop 2.jpg

| style="text-align:left;" |Kamlesh Patel

|19 March 2018{{Spaced en dash}}28 February 2023

|{{age in years, months and days|2018|03|19|2023|02|28|sc=y}}

|{{Cite news |date=12 January 2020 |title=Kamlesh Kumar Patel Baron Patel of Bradford OBE |url=https://issuu.com/asiansundaynewspaper/docs/asbradford_january_2020_v2 |work=Asian Sunday |location=Bradford |page=8 |via=Issuu}}{{Sfn|Social Work England|2023|p=44}}

|{{Spaced en dash}}

| style="text-align:left;" |Andrew McCulloch

|1 March 2023{{Spaced en dash}}Present

|{{age in years, months and days|2023|03|01|sc=y}}

|{{Sfn|Social Work England|2023|p=44}}{{Cite news |last=Samuel |first=Mithran |date=27 September 2024 |title=Social Work England: interim chair gets role on substantive basis |url=https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/27/social-work-england-interim-chair-gets-role-on-substantive-basis/ |work=Community Care |publisher=MA Education |access-date=4 October 2024 |archive-date=28 September 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240928203735/https://www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/09/27/social-work-england-interim-chair-gets-role-on-substantive-basis/ |url-status=live }}

References

= Citations =

= Bibliography =

{{OGL-attribution}}{{Cite book |last=Social Work England |url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/64b91ba806f78d00147425d9/Social_Work_England_annual_report_and_accounts_2022_to_23.pdf |title=Social Work England Annual Report and Accounts 2022 to 2023 |date=18 July 2023 |publisher=His Majesty's Stationery Office |isbn=978-1-5286-3954-5 |series=HC 1648}}
{{Cite journal |last=Hanley |first=Joe |date=2022 |title=Social Work England: A regulator that has earned our collective dissent |url=https://oro.open.ac.uk/85202/1/Social%20Work%20England%20Dissent.pdf |journal=Aotearoa New Zealand Social Work |volume=34 |issue=3 |pages=48–60 |doi=10.11157/anzswj-vol34iss3id925 |url-access= |via=Open Research Online |doi-access=free}} {{Creative Commons text attribution notice|cc=by4|from this source=yes}}