
This Is Social Work is a podcast from Social Work England, the specialist regulator for social work across England. Hosted by our very own regional engagement leads, we’ll be exploring the profession in more depth with a range of guests with lived and learned experiences of social work.
| Publishes | Weekly | Episodes | 13 | Founded | 5 years ago |
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| Categories | GovernmentSociety & Culture | ||||

Join our Regional Engagement Lead Kate Metcalf, alongside her colleagues from Social Work England's Case Examiner team, Elaine Weinbren and Mike Lupson as they discuss the process of 'accepted disposal' within our fitness to practise processes.
In this episode, Phil Hallam, executive director of regulation at Social Work England, talks to social worker and regional engagement lead Kate Metcalf about why regulation matters to the profession.
Course inspections help to ensure that when students graduate and qualify, they are able to meet the professional standards. Our latest ‘This is social work’ podcast discusses what makes for a positive regulatory inspections experience? Our education... more
Our latest ‘This is social work’ podcast discusses the perceptions of social work and how we want to change the script on social work. Exploring what social work means to different people, how social work as a profession is viewed by the public and w... more
In the second episode, we speak to Andrea Stone, service director for Children's Social Care in Dudley and Emina Atic-Lee, service manager at Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust and a member of our National Advisory Forum. The forum p... more
In the first of our one-off episodes, our head of equality, diversity and inclusion, Ahmina Akhtar is joined by Duc Tran, co-chair of the Equality Diversity and Inclusion Advisory Group for the British Association of Social Workers and Transformation... more
In this episode, regional engagement lead Philippa is joined by principal social worker and former chief social worker for adults, Fran Leddra and Julie Stevens, principal social worker for adults, as they discuss professional standard 6.
Philippa, ... more
In this episode, regional engagement leads Matthew and Philippa are joined by social worker and social media advocate Kayleigh Rose Evans as they discuss the social media aspect of professional standard 5.
Kayleigh is a regular social media user wit... more
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