SWE has published it new training standards for AMHPs and BIAs education and training. Plus there is also its response to the consultation on the draft standards which took place in 2022. https://lnkd.in/efBFH_Ze
Sahira Akram
3mo
Hi, can I ask is the only way to train as a BIA and AMHP solely through the LA? Or can you train with someone else? Thanks, Sahira
Retired - plus P/T AMHP for Hampshire County Council, Independent Trainer
3moHaving read the education standards for AMHP Courses, I am not all impressed with SWE's coverage of anti-oppressive and anti-racist practice. All they can offer is a paragraph in each section of the standards about Equality, Diversity and Inclusion policies needing to be adhered to. This is woefully too thin and inadequate to ensure that AMHPs practice in an anti-racist style and mindful if the Protected Characteristics of the Equality Act 2010. There have already been stinging criticisms made by many social workers and social work academics about SWE's own policies and practices which have appeared to treat racialised minority social workers worse than those who are White British regarding Fitness to Practice procedures. With the Mental Health Act Review in 2018 trying to address discrimination against racialised minorities in the MH System, and the DHSC and NHS England developing vital services to correct the discrimination, SWE once again seem to demonstrate how far away they are from what is needed. I am dismayed.