Social Workers
(asked on 18th March 2020) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many social care workers voluntarily left Social Work England's register in each of the last three years.
Social Work England (SWE) took over the regulation of social workers in England on 2 December 2019 from the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). The figures for 2020 are between the period of 1 January – 18 March 2020.
The number of social workers in England who voluntarily left the register of social workers in England since 2017 is shown in the following table:
Total | 2017 HCPC | 2018 HCPC | 2019 HCPC | 2020 (to 18 March) SWE |
9,436 | 1,099 | 7,090 | 1,078 | 169 |
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The number of social workers in England who were struck off the register of social workers in England in since 2017 is shown in the following table:
Total | 2017 HCPC | 2018 HCPC | 2019 HCPC | 2020 (to 18 March) SWE |
202 | 71 | 62 | 65 | 4 |