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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

Care experience and employment

Iriss Outline

Evidence summary providing an overview of evidence relating to how care experience affects education and employment.

Published in

Outlines

on 3 Aug 2021

Covid-19, low incomes and poverty

ESSS Outline

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

Mindfulness in social work education and practice

Insight 56

Provides students and practitioners with the opportunity to critically assess the value of mindfulness as a way of attending to wellbeing in their professional and personal lives.

Published in

Insights

on 8 Jul 2020

Schools, safeguarding and early intervention

ESSS Outline

This evidence summary looks at how schools can support early intervention to prevent children and young people from entering care.

Published in

Outlines

on 29 Apr 2019

Stories of service user involvement

Seven stories that illustrate and celebrate service user and carer involvement in social work teaching and learning.

Published in

News

on 17 Oct 2018

Person-centred community-led social support and care: equalities and human rights outcomes

Evidence Review

This evidence review was commissioned by Life Changes Trust to explore the evidence around the contribution of community-led approaches to social care and support to human rights and equalities outcomes.

Published in

Reports

on 7 May 2018

Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs): educational interventions

ESSS Outline

Explores the evidence around Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs), their impact on educational outcomes and what interventions may be effective.

Published in

Outlines

on 23 Apr 2018

Distributed leadership in early years and childcare

ESSS Outline

Explores distributed approaches to leadership in the context of childcare and early years settings. It provides some background to Scottish policy priorities and principles of leadership and distributed approaches.

Published in

Outlines

on 19 Dec 2017

Seeking workshop contributions

You are invited to provide a workshop contribution to a national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education.

The conference will be held on 26 April 2017 at the University of Stirling and bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers. It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels.

Workshops should:

Published in

News

on 2 Feb 2017