Debate contribution: Social Work Bursary
Debate contribution by Mr Robin Swann on .
- MLA
- Mr Robin Swann
- Party at the time
- Ulster Unionist Party
- Date
- 21 May 2024
- Type
- Debate contribution
- Business
- Oral Answers to Questions
- Heading
- Social Work Bursary
- Assembly identifier
- Official Report component 4491688
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The Member identifies and is fully cognisant of the pressures on our social care workforce. I have a bid going into the transformation programme that sits with the Executive with regard to additional places for MDTs. That is for another 40 social work training places in Northern Ireland. I would like to make sure that we get that support from the Executive but also that we have the financial package to support the students during their studies. My concern — I think that the Member will realise that it is a genuine concern — would be that, if we extended that provision to social work students, there could then be a duty to extend financial support to any student who went to study across the water. I will not rule it out. I am keen to explore it, but I am far more open to increasing our social work training places here at home rather than having the unfortunate situation where people have to study social work across the water with the potential for coming back here.
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