Written Question·Department for Education·UIN 92211

Anwar Meah

Tabled: 18 November 2025
Answered: 25 November 2025
Named Day

Question

Preet Kaur Gill

Labour (Co-op)Birmingham Edgbaston

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether her Department investigated the conduct of social worker Anwar Meah.

Answer

Josh MacAlister

Social Work England (SWE) is the independent regulator for the social work profession in England and, as such, is responsible for investigating concerns relating to social workers’ fitness to practise that are referred to them. While the department is unable to intervene in individual cases, officials contacted the regulator when concerns were highlighted.

SWE’s overarching objective is to protect the public. In meeting this objective they are obliged, as set out in legislation, to consider all concerns it receives to determine whether there is evidence that a social worker’s fitness to practise may be impaired.