Professionalism & Professional Standards for Social Workers (Social Work England)
A 2.5-hour CPD course built around Social Work England's Professional Standards, accountable, evidence-based decision-making, genuine collaboration and appropriate delegation, continuing professional development, and raising concerns properly. Written for social workers across children's and adult services.
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Is this you?
We wrote this for three kinds of Social Work England-registered professional. Most people reading this are at least one of them.
You work as part of a genuinely multi-disciplinary system.
Health, education, housing, police, this course works through genuine collaboration and appropriate delegation, not a generic teamwork module.
You want CPD that actually reflects the real weight of Standard 3.
Accountability is the largest, richest standard Social Work England sets, evidence-based assessment, bias, delegation, records, rapid response. This course gives it two full modules, not a single overview lesson.
You want to know how to raise a concern properly, about a colleague, your employer, or yourself.
Whether it's a genuine practice concern, a systemic issue with your own organisation, or cooperating honestly with an investigation into your own conduct, this course covers it directly.
Social Work England sets six standards. This course covers the standing-practice ones.
Professionalism and our Ethics course are designed as a pair, covering all six Professional Standards fully between them without repeating each other. Here's where this course sits.
Accountability
Evidence-based decisions, guarding against bias, delegation, and records.
This courseCPD
Genuine supervision, lived-experience feedback, and honest self-reflection.
This courseRaising Concerns
Reporting harm, challenging your own workplace, and cooperating with investigations.
This courseRights & Integrity
Partnership, trust, and safety, covered in our Ethics course.
What it covers, and why
Course description
A 2.5-hour CPD course on the standing-practice side of Social Work England's Professional Standards, built for social workers across children's and adult services. It covers accountable, evidence-based decision-making, genuine collaboration and appropriate delegation, continuing professional development, and raising concerns properly, about harm, your own working environment, or a colleague's practice.
Why it's relevant
Standard 3 alone spans fifteen real sub-points, legal frameworks, risk assessment, bias, delegation, records, rapid response to danger. Most generic CPD treats this as a single overview topic. This course gives it the depth it genuinely has, across two full modules.
How it improves your practice
You'll finish able to make accountable, evidence-based decisions that guard against bias, work genuinely with colleagues from other disciplines and delegate appropriately, use supervision and feedback, including lived-experience feedback, to genuinely improve your practice, and raise a concern properly, whatever form it takes.
What it covers
The course runs across five modules:
- Accountable decision-making, legal frameworks, evidence, and bias
- Working with others, collaboration, delegation, and records
- Continuing professional development, supervision, feedback, and self-reflection
- Raising concerns and promoting ethical practice
- Applying every standard together, with a complete worked case
Who it's for
Any social worker registered with Social Work England, at any career stage, across children's services, adult services, and every practice setting. Part of the wider CrownEthics library of CPD courses for UK healthcare and social care professionals.
Related courses
This course stands on its own. These pair naturally if your situation calls for it:
- You want the relational and ethical reasoning side too — add Ethics & Ethical Standards for Social Workers (Social Work England). Together these cover all six standards fully.
- You want to understand the wider fitness to practise process — add Fitness to Practise: What You Need to Know. Relevant across every UK regulator.
Every course above is standalone and priced individually.
Everything included
19 lessons across 5 modules, self-paced, around 2.5 hours
Four short knowledge checks, plus a final 15-question assessment (80% to pass, unlimited retakes)
Downloadable certificate of completion, permanent access
Reviewed by qualified professionals for accuracy
No expiry, revisit any time
Questions about this course
Does this course count as CPD?
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How is this different from the Ethics course?
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Does the course cover delegation and accountability specifically?
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Does the course cover raising a concern about my own employer?
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Will this help if a concern has already been raised about me?
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How long does the course take, and is it self-paced?
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Is there an assessment, and what happens if I don't pass?
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Who reviewed this course for accuracy?
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Can my organisation enrol multiple staff at once?
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