INDEPENDENT, BUT CONNECTED IN OUR PRACTICE A report from the Private Practice Committee
The Private Practice committee spent the majority of 2019 addressing issues with the NSCSW bylaws regarding the registration of private practitioners. Social work private practitioners and their clients have also continued to face barriers in ensuring coverage of social work services through insurance companies. Parallel to these concerns, members working through the public mental health systems have expressed distress about the current direction of mental health care in Nova Scotia and the role of social work within this system.
PRIVATE PRACTICE BYLAWS An agenda for our committee was defined by a motion carried by the membership at the 2018 AGM:
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“the membership directs the College’s Private Practice Committee to continue further considerations for this by-law change to section 32(1)b outlining the private practice requirements. As part of deliberations, the committee will bring a specific recommendation with detailed rationale to members at the next AGM in 2019.”
