Tag: Professional Standards

Sep 11, 2025 — NSCSW members are invited to review draft guidelines for issuing medical certificates for employers, and share their feedback.

Dec 21, 2024 — Our professional standards and ethics committee has put together comprehensive documentation guidelines to support our members in documenting their activities, and in their practice. 

Feb 2, 2023 — Developing resources to support members’ ethical practice.

March 23, 2022 — A lunch & learn overview of the new annual professional development requirements for social workers in Nova Scotia.

February 23, 2022 — Join us for a lunch and learn overview of the new professional development standards for all social workers in Nova Scotia.

December 16, 2021 — NSCSW joins CASW in celebrating the passage of Bill C-4, which bans conversion therapy in Canada.

Dec 2, 2021 — This summer, a committee of hard-working social workers, serving on the ad-hoc professional development standards working group, put together a proposal to transform our professional development standards. These changes were approved by Council in November 2021 and will take effect in January 2022.

7 October 2021 — We’re proposing changes to the professional development standards. Take a look at what the committee has so far.

Nov 5, 2021 — Practical and ethical implications of changes to Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) legislation for social workers in Nova Scotia

September 30, 2021 — National Truth and Reconciliation Day calls on all of us to make space for the grief and healing of survivors and the remembrance of those lost, but also to participate in necessary and long overdue change.