Since the academic year 2013-14 within England, Practice Educators (PEs) have been required to assess social work students during field placements using the Professional Capabilities Framework (PCF) and according to the principles of holistic assessment. Whilst the adoption of the PCF as part of the national change agenda is currently being scrutinised and debated, there has been little research or analysis regarding the practice assessment of social work students on placement and, in…
Social Work Practice Placements book, published by Sage, will help to develop student's critical thinking, analytic and reflective skills as they progress through their placements. It will help them build a successful practice portfolio and understand exactly how they fit into the myriad of other professionals and services that make up day to day reality of practice. Crucially, the book also features…
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The Field Educator is an online journal published by the Simmons School of Social Work that promotes knowledge exchange among the social work field education community.
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SSSS Learning ZoneWeb site with resources, including, apps, to help develop knowledge and skills in social care and social work. Includes resources on dementia, self-directed support, childhood practice, protecting people, and much more.
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Care Inspectorate: The Hub provides 'one-stop-shop' access to a range of resources aimed at supporting improvement in the social care and social work sectors through the use and sharing of intelligence and research-led practice.
Resources include:
- A library of good practice guidance
- Information on the latest developments in policy and legislation
- Video based examples of innovative practice
- Guidance to…
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Practice learning accounts for half of the content of the bachelor of social work degree course requirements in Northern Ireland in their field education programmes and share a professional and ethical responsibility with practice teachers to provide appropriate learning environments to prepare students as competent and professional practitioners. The accreditation standards for practice learning require the placement to provide students with regular supervision and exposure to a range of…
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An honest and engaging account of a student's experience of a voluntary sector placement, written as a blog post. Written to alleviate student anxieties about a 'non-traditional' social work placement, this blog post has been shared widely on Twitter and received very positive feedback in the UK and internationally.
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A website developed by Merlinda Weinberg from Dalhousie University to enable workers in the helping professions to expand their thinking about ethics beyond Codes of Practice and uni-dimensional decision-making models. Includes analytical tools to help practitioners to develop strategies to address ethical dilemmas, and a forum for discussion and debate.
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This paper reports on three evaluated projects of social work placements in private care homes for older people in Scotland. This was a new situation for each of the care homes. They were uncertain about the student role and this was initially challenging for the students. Reported outcomes of these placements include deep learning for the students who developed core social work skills and an understanding of ageism within a relationship-based model of social work. The care homes reported…
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With its great topical importance for the adult social care sector, the British Journal of Social Work is pleased to make freely available a number of key articles from recent issues of the journal about self-directed support. These articles provide an informed and critical analysis of policy and practice in this area - from the evaluation of early pilots to current issues in implementation.
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