How Social Work England is responding to COVID-19 - a conversation with Colum Conway, Social Work England
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special. In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with Colum Conway, Chief Executive of Social Work England. They discuss how Social Work England has transformed to remote working in order to continue to fulfill its duties as a regulator. Colum also discusses how Social Work England is working to strengthen and replenish the workforce to support students, higher education and training providers and ASYE social workers, as well as encouraging former or non-practicing social workers back into the workplace. You can find out more about Social Work England and the work they do here: https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/ @SocialWorkEng Information and resources relating to COVID-19 can be found here: https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/coronavirus/ If you are interested in temporarily registering with Social Work England to offer support during this period, you can find more details here https://www.socialworkengland.org.uk/registration/social-workers-with-temporary-registration/ You can find out more about Social Work Together - helping social workers return to practice to support the local response to COVID-19 - here: https://www.jobtrain.co.uk/lga/displayjob.aspx?jobid=936 If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for upcoming topics, please get in touch by emailing info@whatworks-csc.org.uk You can also follow us on Twitter @whatworksCSC