RESEARCH FINDINGS AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES OF THE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) POLICY FOR THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA

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  • Antoinette Lombard Department of Social Work and Criminology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15270/46-2-169

Abstract

The principled decision taken by the South African Council for Social Service Professions
(SACSSP) in July 2003, effective from 1 April 2010, was to adopt continuing professional
development (CPD) as a requirement for practising social work. The decision was based on a
widely consultative process, which had commenced early in 2001, continuing through various
phases and drafts, and culminating in the final CPD policy in July 2009 (Lombard, Pruis,
Grobbelaar & Mhlanga, 2010).

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Published

2014-06-17

How to Cite

Lombard, A. (2014). RESEARCH FINDINGS AND IMPLEMENTATION CHALLENGES OF THE CONTINUING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (CPD) POLICY FOR THE SOCIAL WORK PROFESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 46(2). https://doi.org/10.15270/46-2-169

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Vol. 46 No. 2 (2010)

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