Social work ‘needs push’ to embed anti-discriminatory practice, say post-qualifying standards authors
16-04-2025 17:10 via communitycare.co.uk

Social work ‘needs push’ to embed anti-discriminatory practice, say post-qualifying standards authors

Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.Social work needs to be “pushed further” to embed anti-discriminatory practice within children’s services, say the authors of proposed post-qualifying standards (PQS) for newcomers to the profession.
Members of the expert writing group that drew up the PQS explained why anti-discriminatory practice was the first of the proposed six standards, in a webinar on the Department
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