The Care Council for Wales is the social care workforce regulator in Wales and we're responsible for promoting and securing high standards across the social services and social care workforce.

Our Chair is Arwel Ellis Owen and our Chief Executive is Rhian Huws Williams. We aim to ensure that the workforce in Wales has the right skills and qualifications to work to a high professional standard, and is capable of delivering high quality services that have the confidence of the public, those who use services and their carers.

Social Work Training – Meeting the Challenges of the Future

For the past two years, the Care Council has been assessing the training of social workers – where it is now and where it should be in the future.

This has involved a range of continuing projects which will help develop a strong social work profession capable of meeting the challenges facing Welsh communities now and in the future.

The assessment has included:
• examining the impact of the social work degree;
• building a career structure for social workers linked to their development;
• reviewing how training is funded.

This work continues to involve a wide range of groups, including employers, social workers, trainers and educators, users and carers, and policy makers.

To-date, the work has produced a detailed career structure for social workers and linked roles; a continuing professional education and learning structure linked to the career pathway, and a model to deliver training for social workers and social care workers.

The outcomes of the work have been reviewed by members of the Care Council and will now be submitted to the Social Work and Social Care Workforce Task Group established by the Deputy Minister for Social Services.

A summary of different areas of this work is available in the latest edition of the Care Council’s newsletter: With Care

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