Innovations in Social Work Practice Education:Utilising Relationship Based Social Work

Thursday 5th June 2014

Morning09:00 – 12:00

• 09:00 Registration

• 09:30 Welcome - Professor Noel Smith UCS

• 09:45 Dave White – Independent Practice Educator

• 09:55 Jane Herd – Centre for Social Work Practice

• 10:00 – 10:45 - Gillian Ruch – Introducing Relationship-based Social Work: Thinking and talking about relationships

• 10:45 – 11:00 - Break - Refreshments

• 11:00 – 12:00 - Michelle Lefevre – The potential significance of the supervisory relationship in practice education

• 12:00-13:00 - Lunch

Afternoon13:00 – 16:15

Workshops (13:00 - 14:00 and 14:15 - 15:15)

• Workshop 1: Gillian Ruch – Reflective Practice and Relationship-based Social Work – Case discussion

• Workshop 2: Michelle Lefevre – Working with interpersonal processes in the student/practice educator relationship

• Workshop 3: Caroline Skinner & Catherine Dove – Early placement breakdown in social work practice placements

• Workshop 4: Glenn Robinson & Fliss Gillott – Relationship-based practice in front-line social work

• 15:15 – 15:30 - Break

• 15:30 – 16:00 - Plenary and Panel (Q& A)

• 16:00 – 16:15 - Close and Finish