‘Social work degree only’

By Maria Bradshaw | Sun, August 19, 2012 - 12:09 AM

THE Barbados Association of Professional Social Workers (BAPSW) is opposed to people without a degree in social work being recognized as professionals.

Responding to a situation in which the National Union of Public Workers (NUPW) has been lobbying Government to recognize six employees attached to the Child Care Board, who have degrees but not in social work, the BAPSW said they could not be designated as social workers.

“It is with great concern that the BAPSW views any decision to consider individuals holding a degree in sociology with social work or psychology with social work as competent enough to function adequately in many of our social services agencies such as the Probation Department, Child Care Board, Welfare Department, or Community Development,” the association noted in a letter to the SUNDAY SUN.

“Let it be clearly understood that a degree in social work has been designed to train individuals to become professional social workers with a history of development that evolved to meet the needs of individuals, groups and communities."

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Posted by yogi Ni 9 months ago: What adulterated nonsense. Why is it that a person who has a degree in Sociology and Social work can not function as a professional Social worker? What was happening before the degree in Social work was introduced? A lot of time people who do not have degrees in these areas function much better than the people who have the qualification. A person can have nine hundred degrees in social work and are not people oriented, that person would not be a good social worker. Social work is about caring about others and want to make other people life's better.