National support programme for overseas social workers should be ‘seriously considered’, says BASW

A national support programme for the growing number of overseas social workers in the UK should be “seriously considered”, the British Association of Social Workers has said.
BASW made the call after launching its own professional development scheme for new international recruits to UK social work.
Employers, particularly in England, have turned to international recruits in recent years to tackle persistently high social work vacancy rates in children’s services and adult socia