North-West Refresher Training Resources

The Difficult Conversation Template is a great tool for broaching difficult or sensitive topics with your student, devising an action plan and following up.

Supervising social work students comes with unique challenges, given the complexity of the field and the diverse needs of the students and clients they serve.

Rethinking the politics, construction, application, and efficacy of ethnic categorisation

Decolonising social work practice involves recognizing and re-centring cultural practices and knowledges that have been marginalised or dismissed. It also involves identifying and challenging destructive beliefs and practices, and learning from successful decolonisation efforts

The aim of this resource is to introduce practice supervisors to the PRACTISINGRACE framework and the METRO MAP (a visual aide memoire
that describes the day-to-day experiences of Black, Asian and ethnic minoritised practitioners throughout their social work journeys)

Learning from Serious Case Reviews highlights that there is insufficient focus on the impact of race, culture, ethnicity, asylum seeking status, faith (and its meaning for that specific child or family), as well as disability or poverty when working with children and families.

This article introduces the MANDELA model as a new and innovative tool for effectively engaging social work students of black African heritage studying on social work qualifying programmes across England and Wales.

This learning tool accompanies a short presentation called, ‘Using the GGRRAAACCEEESSS and LUUUUTT models in supervision’, which explains what is meant by these terms (Burnham, 2012; Pearce and Pearce, 1990 respectively), which have been further developed by Partridge (forthcoming).

This study challenges the notion of 'failure to fail' in practice placements by revealing how Black African social work students in England are instead often fast-tracked to failure through racialised assessments and urges a shift in focus toward addressing systemic racism in social work education and practice.

Neurodiversity, is an 'umbrella' term that recognises a range of differences that are simply variations in the way people think, learn, experience and view the world.

Beth Radulski’s article highlights how COVID-19’s shift to remote work revealed everyday challenges for neurodiverse individuals, like sensory overload and social exhaustion. Drawing from her own autism diagnosis, Radulski advocates for accessible, flexible environments that embrace neurodiversity as a valuable difference rather than a barrier, calling for a shift toward inclusivity in workplaces and learning spaces.

Inclusive education is commonly defined as teaching that engages students in learning which is meaningful, relevant and accessible to all. Inclusive education embraces the view that individual difference is a source of diversity, which can enrich the lives and learning of others.

Deciding weather to disclose is a sensitive part of identity management with many questions to consider.
Fears may include perception by others post-disclosure, access to support, & Concerns around wellbeing.

Practice learning within social work education plays a significant part in students’ educational journey. Little is understood about the emotional climate of placements. This paper presents a small…

Students have identified practice placements (or practice learning) as the single most important factor of social work education...

This paper explores the nature and quality of relationships between social work students and their practice educators and discusses how practice educators navigate their multifaceted and complex in the context of practice learning in England.

A social work student recounts how her second practice placement not only made her feel helpless and unsupported but also led to the termination of her social work course.

The practice educator role is vital, but can be challenging when working with a student at risk of failure.

The paper explores issues that arise in the assessment of failing social work
students in practice learning settings in England.

In today’s episode, you’re getting the blueprint for developing your communication skills. What you learn will boost your influence and make you more confident.

How do doctors in the emergency room stay calm and focused amidst the chaos? Drawing on years of experience, ER doctor Darria Long shares a straightforward framework to help you take back control and feel less overwhelmed when life starts to get “crazy busy.”