By Leeanne Olivant, NOPT
In the dynamic landscape of social work, practice educators (PEs) stand as vital pillars.
The role’s critical importance in nurturing the next generation of social workers and retaining experienced practitioners was highlighted in a Social Work…
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‘Why practice education research must be catalyst for tackling longstanding issues facing role’
How can we achieve consistency across practice education?
A recent College of Social Work online debate highlighted a lack of consistency across practice educator assessments.
Professional development: Reforming practice education
The Social Work Reform Board is proposing that all practice education teachers should be qualified social workers and the quality of placements improved. Sally Gillen reports
Trowler urges Social Work Education to tackle student concerns on lack of anti-discriminatory practice focus
Chief social worker for children and families Isabelle Trowler has written to Social Work England’s chief executive urging him to address “serious concerns” from students over a lack of focus on anti-discriminatory practice.
In a series of tweets this week,…
‘Improvements to social work education will require stable, committed practice educators’
Tiffany Green, an American social worker and practice educator now based in London, gives her take on the latest proposals for reforming the education system in England
‘It’s time we paid proper attention to the central role of practice educators within social work education’
David Croisdale-Appleby's emphasis on improving practice education is to be welcomed, says social work lecturer Cathie Jasper
Integrating Theory and Practice in Social Work Education
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Practice educators passionate about role, but lack of support risks pushing them out of it, finds study
Practice educators are passionate about supporting students, but a lack of recognition and support risks pushing some out of the role, Social Work England-commissioned research has found.
The study found that practitioners were sustained in the role by the motivation…
Adoption practice remains strong but regional agencies struggling to recruit and retain social workers
Adoption practice remains strong but regional agencies are struggling to recruit and retain social workers, inspectors have found.
Many of the challenges that led the government to regionalise adoption services from 2017 onwards remained, including insufficient adopters, long delays in…
Strengths-based supervision: top tips for practice supervisors
This article presents practice tips from Community Care Inform Adults’ guide on supervision: building high quality relationships. The full guide explores best practice in supervision through the provision of high quality supervision relationships, providing advice and tips for practice throughout.…
Can systemic practice improve how early help staff support families?
By Max Stanford, head of impact and evaluation at Coram
This month marks one year since the publication of the Department for Education’s (DfE) Stable Homes, Built on Love strategy to reform children’s social care.
A core objective is improving…
‘Hectic is the life of a social worker’: what research reveals about practice with older people
By Gerry Nosowska
“The locality manager is looking at the referrals coming into the team. It is double what it was a year ago. On the screen there are 89 contacts waiting for attention today, the highest it’s been, I’m…
Family group conferencing good practice must not be diluted in rollout, experts warn
Good practice in family group conferencing must not be diluted as the intervention gets rolled out across children’s social care services.
That was the warning from experts at an event this week to mark the publication of a study that…
A trauma-informed approach to social work: practice tips
This article presents a few key pieces of advice from Community Care Inform Children’s guide on how to become trauma-informed in practice, which was published in January 2021. The full guide explores the trauma model, the principles that underpin the…
The key challenges facing practice educators today
By Sally Scott
Some years ago, when I was working in a social work team in the Republic of Ireland, we were approached by a university in Germany looking for six-month practice placements.
The team were up for a challenge…
‘Little known’ about which practice models work best amid ‘huge variation’ in approach – evidence body
“Little is known” about which social work practice models work best amid “huge variation” in approaches across England’s 153 local authorities.
That was among the messages from Foundations, the new evidence body created from the merger of What Works for…
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