Getting the Right Trainers: Enabling Service Users to Train Social Work Students and Practitioners About the Reality of Family Poverty in the UK
Edited by Nick Perry, ATD Fourth World
ISBN: 0950851477,
£7.50
STAR RATING: 4/5
Recent years have seen the growing recognition of the value of involving service users in social work training and research, writes Elaine Argyle.
In accordance with these developments, this publication reports on a project that aimed to draw upon the experience of poverty and social exclusion among service users in the development and delivery of a social work training module.
This Department of Health-funded project included decisions about process, the determination of learning outcomes and evaluation. However, at only 36 pages in length, the depth with which these themes are addressed in this publication is inevitably constrained.
Nevertheless, it provides an invaluable practical guide to user-led approaches in social care training.
In addition, its focus on poverty helps to raise the profile of an important issue, which remains one of the most common features in the lives of social work clients.
Dr Elaine Argyle is a researcher at the University of Sheffield
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June 22, 2006 in Community Care
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