The Service User and Carer Network is a group of adults and young people who use social work services and who are involved in teaching and learning at London Metropolitan University. The Network is mostly involved with the social work programme and in the following ways:
Recruitment:Service Users and Carers help to select social work student candidates for entry onto the social work programme.
Planning courses:Service Users’ and Carers’ views are sought about what should be included in the social work study programme.
Teaching:This could mean presenting a workshop, a seminar, or lecture, or working alongside a social work lecturer or student(s) in helping students understand the perspective of service users and carers.
Assessing:This could mean helping to make sure that social work students are sufficiently knowledgeable and skilled for their future employment as qualified social workers.
Evaluating: This could mean service users and carers sitting in on a lecture or a seminar and giving their views about their experience to help improve things
Department of Applied Social Sciences (DASS)
London Metropolitan University
Ladbroke House
62 -66 Highbury Grove
London
N5 2AD
Research, Literature, Newsletter
Article: 'What Service Users Want' Peter Beresford writes in the Guardian on the adult social care green paper and if it reflects the needs of service users and carers. (March 05). For more about the Green Paper see under useful websites above.
In 2004 the Social Care Institute for Excellence brought together the main findings from six reviews that looked at whether service user participation made a difference to changing and improving social care services.- Has service user participation made a difference to social care services?
