This excellent resource has been created by Caroline Aldridge and Sandra McGough (What Work Well Leads, Norfolk County Council, 2018).

Caroline and Sandra are happy to share their resources and ideas. If you use this tool please tell them and give them feedback on the Padlet website or on Twitter: @CarolineAldrid5 or…

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Kirstin Parkes outlines some strategies to help practice educators facilitate improved critical reflection in practice learning experiences.

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Placements are crucial for the education of student social workers, but they have a huge benefit for the teams they're placed with too. Deirdre Fitzpatrick, ScOPT Trustee, has made a short video illustrating the advantages to teams of having a student and the benefits, too, to the student. It's just one minute long.

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These materials are all openly accessible on the Support Around Death  website and can be used in a range of different teaching settings for health and social care professionals.

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What does it take to become a resilient practitioner in social work? This free course from the Open University will guide you through some important concepts. An understanding of 'emotional resilience' and 'professional leadership' will help to guide you through taking a positive approach to problems that arise in social work practice. You will also be introduced to some ideas about leadership in social work practice.

The course is available online, but is also available to download…

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Social work is a dynamic profession that is undergoing a period of significant change in Scotland. Social workers have the power to make assessments and decisions that radically alter people's lives. This free course from the Open University introduces the law as it relates to social work and encourages an understanding of the context of the law in order to make sound decisions.

The course is available online, but is also available to download for your Kindle as well as in PDF format…

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The Practice Pyramid is a learning tool that supports social work students' ability to integrate their understanding of personal and professional values, theory and practice during field placements. Although it has been used by practice educators in Scotland for over 20 years, it is not well known elsewhere and has yet to be evaluated. This paper, written by a practice educator and a student social worker, describes the Practice Pyramid and provides a case example to illustrate how it…

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In UK social work education, practice educators supervise and assess students while they are on placement. Practice placements are the most important element of social work degree courses, accounting for half of the overall programme for undergraduates. So the role of the practice educator is vital, particularly if a student is struggling or at risk of failing.

In an article for…

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As part of a series of ThursdayThunking from ScOPT, Liz Beddoe reflects on when supervision can be less than helpful.

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