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Promises and Pitfalls: Involving Service Users and Carers in Social Work Manager Education
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Farrow, Kathryn N. Fillingham, Joy |
| Copyright Year | 2012 |
| Abstract | Partnership working occupies an increasing amount of social work managers' time and budget, requiring skills and abilities not always developed previously within social work programmes. Much discussion around partnership working centres on building collaborative inter-agency and inter-professional relationships with less emphasis on the need to ensure good working relationships with service users and carers, despite their being the ultimate recipients of the process. This article explores efforts to develop a focus on service users and carers within a module for social work managers as part of post-qualifying (PQ) social work education. It documents a process where, initially, service users and carers provided personal testimonies of being recipients of services and then subsequently occupied more authoritative roles within teaching, to the current position when they are again less actively involved. In describing these developments it explores possible reasons why involving service users and carers withi... |
| Starting Page | 835 |
| Ending Page | 847 |
| Page Count | 13 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1080/02615479.2011.608124 |
| Volume Number | 31 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/Documents/college-social-sciences/social-policy/IASS/publications/promises-and-pitfalls-farrow-fillingham.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1080/02615479.2011.608124 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
