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Innovation and Improvements in Social WorkEducation and CPD
Ann Potter
Senior Lecturer
Department of Social Care & Social Work
MMU
Relevance to family justice?
• “Social Workers are experts…” (albeit without a capital ‘E’)
• Legal evaluations of SW evidence in case law
• Pre proceedings and PLO - performance issues and challenges.• Recruiting, training & and retaining ‘good’ SWs• Developing SW expertise
The social work education landscape
Frontline Step-up to SW
Teaching Partnerships BA(Hons) SW
Think Ahead MA SW
Teaching Partnerships
• Government initiative for innovation in SW education (including CPD)• GM – one of 4 successful bids for Teaching Partnership early adopter
status (July 2015 – March 2016)
• 10 GM LAs• 2 GM PVI organisations• 2 Mcr Universities• GM Service users and carers• Devolution Manchester link
GM Social Work AcademyGM bid is an ambitious 3 year plan
• Delivery vehicle for training andeducation of SWs in GM, across services for children and adults
• Education and training designed and delivered by practice leaders, practitioners, service users/carers and academics
• GM SW Academy Professional Development Centre – a centre for preand post qualifying learning for SWs
Benefits & implications
• GM standards for SW practice, education & training: knowledge & skills• Bridging the academic –practice ‘gap’• Sustainability - links to Devo Manc• Fast-paced agenda
Government initiatives to
strengthen a profession: • do we want to be government led?• whose role is it to articulate the knowledge
and skills required in SW and how best can
we do this?
Relevance to family justice?
Opportunity for LFJB to support the identification of areas for learning and practice development in Gtr Mcr.
To support the development of appropriate levels of expertise for newly qualifying SWs and experienced SWs in Gtr Mcr.
