{"value":{"id":1469552,"memberId":4423,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Children and Families","uin":"HCWS96","dateMade":"2022-06-13T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":60,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Education","title":"Update on Social Work England","text":"<p>In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, to support local authority children’s services and adult social care providers, the Government enabled Social Work England to establish a temporary emergency register. Social Work England maintains the emergency register using powers conferred to it under the Coronavirus Act (CVA) 2020. The circumstances to justify the continuation of the emergency register are reducing as the impact of the pandemic reduces. I am today announcing our intention that the emergency register will close on 30<sup>th</sup> September 2022. This will provide those social workers who are practising on the basis of emergency registration sufficient notice in which to take up full registration if they so wish. Prior to the closure of the emergency register the Secretary of State for Education will notify Social Work England that the emergency conditions no longer apply, and the register will close.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":4,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1469552","method":"GET"}]}