A three-year degree-level social work qualification is to begin from 2003 as part of a bid to raise social care standards.
The new courses will emphasise practice-based learning.The existing two-year diploma in social work will continue until 2003 and those holding it will be eligible to register with the new General Social Care Council which comes into being in October and will regulate the social care workforce in England.
New data suggests more than half of local commissioning areas are still failing to offer crisis services to patients with autism and learning disabilities, despite NHS England making this mandatory from 2019.
The NHS long-term plan will not “definitively” deal with staff training, capital or public health – and the government still has no “durable answer” for social care funding, Simon Stevens has said.
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