Equipping social workers to meet 21st century challenges relating to death and dying

By Denise Turner
The proposed assisted dying legislation, which is currently being debated in Parliament, recommends social workers are appointed to multi-disciplinary panels, making decisions about assisted dying requests, following sign-off by two doctors.
This is an important potential change in the social work role. However, death and dying have always been firmly embedded within the profession, either directly, through people who are terminally ill or have experienced the death of a loved o