Since the inception of the NHS and Community Care in 1990, there has been a proliferation of studies examining its implementation at the front line. Considerable attention has been aimed at understanding how it is that social work practitioners, charged with the responsibility to implement...

Universities providing social work education and training must ensure that those who qualify as social workers are ‘suitable' or ‘fit for practice'-a gate-keeping role that has been discussed in a number of different national settings. In England, the introduction of registration for both...