The role of the Greater London Post Qualifying Education and Training Consortium (GLPQ) is to encourage, promote and support continuing professional development (CPD) for social workers in Greater London.

Social workers
If you are a qualified social worker living or working in Greater London, including independent social workers and locums working for recruitment agencies, this site will help you find out how to gain formal recognition of your skills and how you can develop them even further.

Organisations involved in PQ and CPD for social workers
If you are an employer from a local authority, voluntary organisation or social work recruitment agency – or a university or educational and training body providing social work training – this site will help you find out more about using post qualifying (PQ) training to improve standards of care and to help recruit and retain staff.

Please look around our website to find out more about:

• Continuing Professional Development for social workers
• The Post Qualifying Award in Social Work
• The Advanced Award in Social Work
• How GLPQ can help you
• The latest news relating to post qualifying training
• Useful resources and sources of information
• GLPQ events
• Current and previous issues of the GLPQ magazine Contact