Social workers to be allowed to opt out of assisted dying process

Social workers to be allowed to opt out of assisted dying process

Social workers are to be allowed to opt out of the proposed assisted dying process, the legislation’s sponsor has pledged. Labour’s Kim Leadbeater has promised to work with fellow MPs to amend her Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill to ensure practitioners other than health professionals are allowed not to participate. While social workers were originally not part of the bill’s process for assisted dying, they have been added to it through …