Partnership Research Funded Projects
Funded Projects 2023-2024
Proximity in Practice Education: Considering two different models of social work practice education in Local Authority placements
Funded Projects 2022-2023
From Student to Practitioner; race, racism and social work (phase 2)
Developing an Inclusive Model for Research within CMSWTP: SU/PLE as co-producers of research.
Reports below:
Reflecting on preparedness for child protection practice: what are the messages of newly qualified child protection social workers and their managers for social work education providers and their curriculum?
Report below:
CWP Trust Evaluation Project – a named Social Worker
The objective of this scoping review is to identify the different types of social care interventions that exist for care leavers who are not Care Act eligible, and to understand how effective these are in improving outcomes for this specific group of care leavers entering adulthood.
Report below:
Funded Projects 2021-2022
Social work with Conviction. To explore experiences of social work course admission for applicants with criminal convictions.
Report for Teaching Partnership
Developing a Child Sexual Abuse Assessment Tool for SWs across Cheshire and Merseyside.
What are the identified training needs of health and social work professionals working with adolescents transitioning between children’s and adult health and social work services? What are the recommendations for social work education and practice?
Read the Research Report here: Final report for CMSWTP training needs of health and social care practitioners
From Student to Practitioner; race, racism and social work (phase 1)
Focusing on the experiences and perspectives of ‘BAME’ (Black, Asian and Minoritised Ethnic) social work students and practitioners within the Cheshire and Merseyside Teaching Partnership (CMSWTP) area as they navigate their journeys within social work programmes and the social work profession.
Photovoice: A visual story of community coproduction. This project will use photography, focus groups and a public exhibition to explore the work of leaders with lived experience delivering community coproduction. The public exhibition will share visual findings, raising awareness of this community-led form of social work (and the CMSWTP) to a broader public audience.
Funded Projects 2020-2021
Social Work Students with Dyslexia: What are the challenges and what strategies can be used to provide effective support in University and on placement?
Click here for the Dyslexia Good Practice Guide
How can adult social workers appropriately support older people who experience loneliness or social isolation?
Read the research report here: How can adult social workers appropriately support older people who experience loneliness or social isolation?
What are the frontline practitioners’ experiences of increasing Care Orders at home?
How can we more fully include lived experiences of (former) service users in the evaluation of services and co-production of knowledge?
Written evidence to the Justice Committee Inquiry into Mental Health in Prisons
A Profile of Students Admitted to the Social Work Degree in the CMSWTP Region
Read the report here: A Profile of Students Admitted to the Social Work Degree in the CMSWTP Region
Photovoice: A visual narrative of a peer led crime prevention approach.
The study has now been published in the British Journal of Social Work
Link to the author copy here: BJSW-Practising-community-justice-with-love (002)
Click here to view our Exhibition report
Click here to view our Research Report – Photovoice Research Report
What difference does a Parent and/or Connected Carer Participation Group make in local authority child protection, child in need and child looked after social work intervention? What helps or hinders setting up and working with an effective Parent and Connected Carer Participation Group?