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| Developing professional boundaries guidance for social workers | | Author(s) | Kerrin Clapton |
| Journal title | Journal of Adult Protection, vol 15, no 1, 2013 |
| Publisher | Emerald, 2013 |
| Pages | pp 37-44 |
| Source | www.emeraldinsight.com/jap.htm |
| Keywords | Protection [vulnerable adults] ; Social workers ; Standards ; Standards of provision. |
| Annotation | The purpose of this paper is to consider the approach taken by the General Social Care Council (GSCC) to developing professional boundaries guidance for social workers. Areas of tension or difficulty encountered in developing the guidance are highlighted and the reasons for the decisions taken in developing the guidance are discussed. The process of developing the guidance served to highlight a number of areas of disagreement regarding how the GSCC should act to address the issue of professional boundaries violations amongst social workers. These areas of disagreement, and how they were resolved within the scope of the guidance, are analysed. The paper provides an insight into the types of issues that a regulator confronts when acting to address behaviour amongst its registrants. The approach the GSCC took to professional boundaries issues amongst social workers _ producing an aid to reflection rather than a list of `dos' and `don'ts' _ and the process of developing the guidance will provide a useful reference point for other organisations confronting similar issues. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-130308221 A |
| Classmark | CA3G: QR: 6QA: 583 |
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