Failing to Fail? Best Practice Event – Working Alongside Marginal and Failing Social Work Students in a Practice Learning Setting.
- Date: 16 Feb 2012
- Start Time: 09:30 am
- Location/venue: University of Chester Social work department Crab lane Warrington Cheshire , WA2 0DB
The idea for this event arose from concern expressed by practice educators. These concerns primarily focused upon the management of marginal and failing social work students in practice learning settings. These concerns have grown in the light of high profile child deaths and from unease about whether social work students in practice learning settings are being rigorously and appropriately assessed by practice educators and are fit and professionally suitable for social work practice.
This event seeks to address the anxieties expressed by Practice Educators about working alongside marginal and failing students and provide guidance, reassurance and appropriate support to ensure they are assessing marginal and failing students appropriately.
Programme
9.30 Coffee /registration
10.00 Welcome and introduction to the day
10.15 Welcome and information about the Higher Education Academy
10.30 Joyce Lishman – keynote speaker
11.15 BREAK
11.45 Jo Finch – keynote speaker
12.30 LUNCH
1.30 Workshops:
1. Fitness to practice / issues of professional suitability
2. Working with social work students in practice learning settings with special learning requirements/disabilities
2.30 BREAK
2.45 Workshops:
1. “ We aren’t all winners” A service user perspective
2. Influences impacting upon assessments in practice learning settings.
3.45 BREAK
4.00 Plenary and close.
Contact email
Post event information
The links below are to downloadable copies of the keynote speech by Joyce Lishman and the presentation by Jo Finch.