Community Care reports calls for workforce training around substance misuse:
The government’s 10-year drug strategy does not give social workers the skills to work effectively with families affected by substance misuse, a leading social work academic has said.
Sarah Galvani, associate professor at the University of Warwick, called for drug and alcohol training to be a mandatory part of all social work degree courses, along with post-qualifying training tailored to practice areas.
The strategy, launched last week, promised to place a greater priority on children and families affected by substance misuse, including through increased support for kinship carers taking responsibility for the children of substance misusing relatives
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An excellent idea, and it would help if those working with people with substance misuse problems were to be train in some of the relevant aspects of social work.
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