• Services for client groups
• Services by activity
  • Social work, social care and social services
  • Community development and regeneration
  • Housing and homelessness
  • Poverty alleviation, welfare benefits and financial inclusion
  • Health services
  • Substance misuse
  • Education and skills
  • Employment
  • Resettlement
  • Criminal justice services
• Government issues

Series: Learning report

Report - see abstract

Author(s): Rowland, David; Smith, Amy

Publisher: GSCC

Published: July 2012

Subjects: Social Work, Social Care and Social Services ; Education and Skills

Corporate subject: General Social Care Council (Great Britain)

File size 2.76 MB

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The report contains information on the characteristics of those social workers who were registered by the General Social Care Council (GSCC), the source and number of referrals to the GSCC, and the types of the misconduct that it  heard. It also highlights what was learnt from dealing with large volumes of applications for registration, as well as working as a regulator within an international context, introducing and maintaining a system for post- registration training and learning, assessing the physical and mental health of social workers, registering social work students and working with other agencies such as the Independent Safeguarding Authority.