CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) FOR THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA
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https://doi.org/10.15270/46-2-168Abstract
The South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP) took a principled decisionduring a meeting on 23 and 24 July 2003 to adopt continuing professional development (CPD)
as a requirement for registration to practise. This decision has positioned and committed social
service professions amongst many other professions, nationally and internationally, to continue
their professional development through “the systematic maintenance and improvement of
knowledge, skills and competence throughout a professional’s working life” (Butler, 2003:18).
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