Education

Student placements in third sector organisations

Student placements in third sector organisations

Developed in collaboration with both third sector organisations, and social work students. This resource is designed to optimise the experience of student placements for both the organisations hosting them and the students experiencing them. 

We would like to thank the generous and continued support of all the people and organisations that contributed to this resource.

Published in
Tools
on 30 Apr 2025

Great expectations: social work student perspectives on placements

Sunlight shining into a woodland. Person with long hair in a ponytail facing the light and lifting their arms up towards it.

“I wanted that first placement to be something that I would be like ‘okay is social work the right career for me, is this the right job for me?"  - Reflection from an early career social worker on their third sector placement.

‘I learned a lot, but it wasn’t what I expected it to be’ is the message we’ve heard loudest from the students and recently workers we’ve been speaking with recently about their placement experiences.  

Voices and visions: collaborating for improved third sector social work student placements
Published on 18 Nov 2024

Covid-19, low incomes and poverty

ESSS Outline

ESSS Outline Covid-19 low incomes and poverty
Evidence summary that provides an overview of recent evidence relating to Covid-19 and how it affects those on low incomes and in poverty.
Published in
Outlines
on 14 Jul 2020

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