Thursday 25 July 2013

New requirement to involve service users and carers in social work education

All social work education providers in England will have to involve service users and carers in their approved programmes from 2015, the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) has confirmed.

Nine out of 10 respondents to the HCPC’s consultation on whether to include the requirement in its standards of education and training said yes. 

There were 297 responses in total from across the 16 professions the HCPC regulates, roughly half from individuals and half from organisations, including education providers and service user groups.

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