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Social Work Educators' Views and Experiences of Grow Your Own Qualifying Programmes in England

Manthorpe, Jill, Harris, Jess, Hussein, Shereen (2011) Social Work Educators' Views and Experiences of Grow Your Own Qualifying Programmes in England. Social Work Education, 30 (8). pp. 882-894. ISSN 0261-5479. (doi:10.1080/02615479.2010.527937) (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:68373)

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Abstract

Little is known about the impact on social work educators and social work programmes of employer sponsorship of social work students through secondment or traineeship schemes, often referred to as Grow Your Own (GYO) schemes. This article reports on social work educators' views of sponsorship, the effects on their activities and the dynamics of mixed student cohorts. The study took place in England during 2007-2009 and comprised a review of the literature, interviews with a range of social work educators (n = 23), GYO students (n = 35), and employers (n = 27), and the production of a good practice guide based on stakeholder contributions. Social work educators reported that GYO activity may enhance and enrich social work programmes. They valued secured and guaranteed practice placements, considered that employer-sponsored students enriched the total student cohort, facilitated an expansion of student numbers, and strengthened partnerships with local employers. A further advantage was that GYO benefited the teaching programme overall with more robust employer/university relationships. Social work educators reported that such schemes required careful management and investment of time and might lead to some tensions about the balance between education and training. These findings are placed in the context of developments in social work education in England.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1080/02615479.2010.527937
Additional information: Unmapped bibliographic data: M3 - Article [Field not mapped to EPrints] U2 - 10.1080/02615479.2010.527937 [Field not mapped to EPrints] JO - Social Work education [Field not mapped to EPrints]
Subjects: H Social Sciences
Divisions: Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research
Divisions > Division for the Study of Law, Society and Social Justice > School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research > Personal Social Services Research Unit
Depositing User: Shereen Hussein
Date Deposited: 13 Nov 2018 11:49 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:25 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/68373 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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