Webinar: Social Care Wales and what it means for your registration
Social Care Wales (SCW) have produced a webinar on what the change to SCW will mean for you if you are on the Register of Social Care Workers. Gerry Evans,
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Tag: Learning Networks
Webwatch: What is the value of a social services podcast?
BBC radio, iPlayer and topic-specific podcasts such as Woman’s Hour allow people access to a variety of interesting audio content, which can be listened to at a time and place
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Pioneering social work education partnership launches in Sussex
The University of Sussex has teamed up with East Sussex County Council, Brighton & Hove City Council and the University of Brighton to launch a new teaching partnership. The South
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Webwatch: Improvements to Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS)
Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) is a website and digital library dedicated to social care. Content relates to policy, practice and personal development within social services in Scotland. It was
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Grow your personal learning network with free IRISS course
Martha-Lane Fox quoted Aaron Swartz in her Dimbleby 2015 lecture: ‘It’s not ok NOT to understand the internet anymore’. It’s true. And why? Because the web offers tools to help
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Engage: Social care evidence base
Social care may be the poor relation of healthcare with regard to research funding, but it’s something of a myth that it is not evidence-based, says Research in Practice Director
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Survey: NSPCC to form expert child protection panel
The NSPCC wants to better understand the issues and the pressures facing people who work in the children’s sector and is setting up a UK-wide panel made up of social
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Webwatch – Wiggio
Communities of practice or enterprise social networks as they’re also known are great for sharing learning, developing new connections and collaborating. The Knowledge Hub, Yammer and Socialcast are examples of
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Stormont to host Knowledge Exchange Seminar Series
A series of free seminars covering topics relevant to social work and social care will be taking place at Stormont over the next few months. ‘Promoting evidence-led policy and law-making
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New animation to support learning networks in care settings
The web is now firmly established in the workplace and it is vital that the workforce knows how to use it. Social media, such as Twitter and LinkedIn, offer great
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