Lawyer
The Role
Social Work England are the specialist regulator for social work in England, focused on enabling positive change in social work. Every day, social workers support millions of people to improve their chances in life. We are taking a new approach to regulating social workers in their vital roles. We believe in the power of collaboration and share a common goal with those we regulate – to protect the public, enable positive change and ultimately improve people’s lives.
Lawyers on the regulatory side of the team support Social Work England in relation to lawfully carrying out its regulatory functions.
These include:
1. supporting our fitness to practise and registration teams, to ensure that our regulatory processes are compliant with any legal restrictions regarding the use of information which relates to private court proceedings (or is otherwise subject to restrictions), such as Family Court proceedings and Court of Protection proceedings;
2. supporting colleagues to apply for disclosure of information from the Family Court and Court of Protection for use in fitness to practise proceedings;
3. providing advice in response to requests for reviews of case examiner decisions and applying criteria set out in our Fitness to Practise Rules;
4. providing advice on internal policies, procedure...