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Social Workers Registration Act 2003

Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates - Applications

8C: Assessment of social workers practising under supervision

You could also call this:

"Checking on social workers who need extra guidance while working"

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If you are a social worker who needs to practise under supervision, your authorisation might include some extra conditions. You will need to be supervised by one or more social workers who will check how you are doing and report back to the Board at certain times. They will tell the Board if they think you should still be practising under supervision.

The social workers supervising you will write reports about your performance and send them to the Board. These reports will say if they think you should keep practising under supervision or not. The reports will help the Board decide what to do with your authorisation.

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Part 2Registration, authorisation to practise within scope of practice, and practising certificates
Applications

8CAssessment of social workers practising under supervision

  1. If an authorisation includes a condition referred to in section 8B(3)(a) that the applicant practise under supervision, the authorisation may also include the following conditions:

  2. that 1 or more of the supervising social workers assess and report to the Board at specified intervals (whether generally or in relation to any particular case or class of case) on the performance of the applicant; and
    1. that each of those reports set out a recommendation as to whether the condition requiring the applicant to practise subject to supervision should continue to apply.

      Notes
      • Section 8C: inserted, on , by section 15 of the Social Workers Registration Legislation Act 2019 (2019 No 3).