
Social Work England, the specialist regulator for almost 100,000 social workers in England, has re-added 8,000 former social workers to the social work register so they can fill vital roles across the country.
The regulator has written to suitably qualified social workers who left the profession in the last two years to advise them that they can now practise again.
Registration means they can now apply for roles with local authorities, health trusts and other employers amid staff shortages due to sickness and self-isolation.
It is also contacting social workers who are already on the professional register, but not in employment, to ask them to consider going back to social work during the crisis.
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