{"id":477855,"date":"2025-10-06T09:48:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477855\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T09:48:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T09:48:18","slug":"social-work-england-issues-update-on-2025-registration-renewal-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/477855\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Work England issues update on 2025 registration renewal process"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Register<\/p>\n

Photo: 9dreamstudio\/Adobe Stock<\/p>\n

Social Work England has issued an update on the first month of this year\u2019s registration renewal round<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It showed that, as of 30 September, 8% of relevant practitioners had completed two of the three tasks required of them to retain their right to practise: filling in the renewal reform and submitting two pieces of continuing professional development (CPD), one of which must have been reflected upon with a peer.<\/p>\n

This is a similar rate of progress to that seen in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The third requirement is to pay the renewal fee, which is generally taken from social workers in two direct debits, on 1 October and 1 April.<\/p>\n

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Record numbers of registered social workers<\/strong><\/p>\n

The update also revealed that record numbers of practitioners were on Social Work England\u2019s register at the start of the renewal period: 106,223, compared with 104,342 at the same time in 2024.<\/p>\n

All of these social workers must complete all three tasks to retain their registration, with those who have registered since 1 September 2025 only having to pay the fee.<\/p>\n

The regulator has increased its renewal charge by 33% this year, from \u00a390 to \u00a3120<\/a>, a move that was opposed by the vast majority of respondents to the consultation on the policy, as well as by organisations representing social workers.<\/p>\n

No apparent impact on registration rates from renewal fee hike\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

A recent Community Care survey found that one in seven practitioners said they would forfeit their right to practise by not paying the renewal fee, in protest at the increase.<\/a><\/p>\n

However, so far the change does not appear to have had an impact on practitioners\u2019 propensity to renew their registration.<\/p>\n

The data showed that 15,339 practitioners (14.4% of those registered before 1 September this year) had completed their renewal form, of whom 8,749 (8.2% of the total) had also met the CPD requirements, by 30 September 2025. Overall, 11,605 (10.9%) had met the CPD requirements as of the end of last month<\/p>\n

Social workers urged to \u2018avoid the last-minute rush\u2019<\/strong>
\n\"Philip<\/p>\n

Philip Hallam, Social Work England\u2019s executive director of regulation<\/p>\n

Commenting on the progress made to date, the regulator\u2019s executive director of regulation, Philip Hallam, said: \u201cWe\u2019re encouraged to see that the profession has continued to grow, with over 106,000 social workers in England who need to apply to renew their registration.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the end of September, the number of applications submitted, and CPD recorded, is on par with the same point last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cWe encourage all social workers to complete their application to renew in plenty of time, to avoid the last-minute rush and allow sufficient time for focus and reflection.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: 9dreamstudio\/Adobe Stock Social Work England has issued an update on the first month of this year\u2019s registration…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,91333,393,4884,91335,158763,158764,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-477855","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-cpd","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-social-work-england","13":"tag-social-work-registration","14":"tag-social-work-registration-fees","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115326596360870241","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}