Exploring the Context of Fitness to Practise Concerns About Social Workers in England: Explanations Beyond Individuals

Gallagher, Ann; Banks, Sarah; Jago, Robert; Zasada, Magdalena; Austin, Zubin; Gaag, Anna van der

doi:10.1080/17496535.2019.1707846

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“…Evidence shows that very few professionals undergo fitness to practise procedures; moreover, there is some evidence to suggest that relatively small numbers of practitioners may be responsible for the majority of complaints [18]. Within these small numbers, however, there is clear over-representation of certain demographics and professions: black and minority ethnic groups [19], older males, [20], overseas-trained [21], dentists and doctors, [20,[22][23][24], chiropractors [25] social workers [26] and paramedics [27]. Nurses were underrepresented in referrals but if the complaint was upheld, were more likely to receive severe penalties [20].…”

Section: Fitness To Practise Complaints Misconduct and Disciplinary Measuresmentioning

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Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment

Browne

Bullock

Poletti

et al. 2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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Background and aims Over the last decade, regulators have taken significant steps towards tackling perceptions that regulatory systems are burdensome. There has been much international research activity in the regulation of health and care professionals. This article reports a review of studies on health professions regulation between January 2011 and March 2020. Its chief object was to provide robust and up-to-date evidence to assist regulators in policy development and implementation. The main objectives of this study were to: Identify and retrieve research in the field of health and care professions regulation in English since 2011; Evaluate the published research, exploring its utility to regulators and practitioners, and drawing out any key messages; Draw conclusions concerning the scope and limitations of the research literature and identify areas for further research. Methods We undertook a rapid evidence assessment (REA) of the international literature on health and care professions regulation, including reviewing ten UK regulators’ websites to identify issues of concern and strategic priorities. We retrieved 3833 references, using a four-stage screening process to select the 81 most relevant. Results Results are reported within six key themes: harm prevention and patient safety; fitness to practise; quality assurance of education and training; registration including maintenance of registers; guidelines and standards and relations with regulatory bodies. Conclusions Regulation of professionals in health and care is comparatively undeveloped as a field of academic study. Consequently, the published evidence is diffuse and small-scale. Most work presents relatively weak data of low relevance to regulators, mainly reporting or describing the current position. Few studies are able to show the impact of regulation or demonstrate a causal link between regulation and its effects. To inform their research and policy agendas health and social care regulators need to commission, interpret and apply the scholarly literature more effectively; academics need to engage with regulators to ensure that their research provides high-quality evidence with practical relevance to the regulators’ agendas. Further study is needed to explore how effective academic collaborations between regulators and researchers may be created and sustained.

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Section: Fitness To Practise Complaints Misconduct and Disciplinary Measuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment

Browne

Bullock

Poletti

et al. 2021

BMC Health Serv Res

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Making Sense of Social Work’s Troubled Past: Professional Identity, Collective Memory and the Quest for Historical Justice

Ioakimidis

Trimikliniotis

2020

The British Journal of Social Work

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Social work historiography has neglected to engage meaningfully with the most troubling aspects of the profession’s past: the histories of complicity, or at least acquiescence, in acts of state violence and institutionalised oppression. Through the exploration of historical case studies, this article provides a tentative typology of social work’s ‘horrible histories’ focusing on the project of engineering the ideal-type family, in colonial and oppressive socio-political contexts. The authors argue that practices of oppression and complicity can neither be reduced to the ‘few bad apples’ approach nor judged through the individualising prism of moralism, prevalent in Kantian Ethics. Instead, they propose an ethics of transformative reconciliation which is based on the principles of apology, respect for victims and collective action for—professional and social—change.

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HURTing: An Analysis of Service User and Carer Referrals to a UK Social Work Regulator

Hayes

2023

The British Journal of Social Work

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In the context of increasing regulation of social workers internationally, this study examines allegations made to a UK social work regulator, the Northern Ireland Social Care Council (NISCC), by service users and carers. A retrospective review of 134 records relating to such allegations during the ten-year period 2006–2015 was undertaken, representing just over one-third (36.4 per cent) of all allegations received. Allegations were made primarily about family and child-care social workers (91.0 per cent) and reflected the four inter-linking categories of concerns about the honesty of social workers, reports that service users/carers were treated unequally, allegations that social workers failed to demonstrate respect in their interactions with service users/carers, and concerns about technical aspects of social workers’ practice. The nature of these allegations forms the acronym HURT that describes both the experiences of service users/carers and the stressful context in which social workers practice. This article concludes that addressing the stress and HURT of both parties is important and makes suggestions regarding how the findings can strengthen the role of the regulator, influence social work practice and empower service users and carers.

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Exploring the Context of Fitness to Practise Concerns About Social Workers in England: Explanations Beyond Individuals

Abstract: and van der Gaag, Anna (2020) 'Exploring the context of tness to practise concerns about social workers in England : explanations beyond individuals.', Ethics and social welfare., 14 (2). pp. 187-203.

Cited by 3 publications

References 26 publications

Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment

Recent research into healthcare professions regulation: a rapid evidence assessment

Making Sense of Social Work’s Troubled Past: Professional Identity, Collective Memory and the Quest for Historical Justice

HURTing: An Analysis of Service User and Carer Referrals to a UK Social Work Regulator

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