ESSS Outline
ESSS Outline
ESSS Outline
ESSS Outline
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:
People who can seek new information, make sense of it, and share it with their colleagues will be an asset to any work team
Project report
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