The new social worker and the new workforce: Paid staff in the
era of Personalisation Seminar held on 9 June 2010
A seminar for members of In Control's Adult Social Care
Programme was held at the Thistle Hotel, Euston and attended by
around 60 colleagues from local authorities. This seminar was
the first in a short series for members of In Control's Adult
Social Care programme focusing on the major issues raised by our
work.
Video
For videos from the day use this link: Social Workforce
2010- Andrew Tyson.
Supporting documents
For presentations and supporting documents see the list at the
foot of this page.
The speakers at the event were:
- Andrew Tyson from In Control
- Claire Winfield from Paradigm
- Graham Woodham from Skills for Care
Two sets of two parallel workshops were held, which
focused on:
- Social work and personalisation
- Social work: a whole systems approach
- Workforce: what a transformed workforce will look like
- Beyond the local authority workforce
Headlines
Some of the issues raised included:
- The difficulty social workers have in defining their new role.
This seems to be shaping up differently in different
authorities
- The need for complementary changes in role - how do social
workers work alongside brokers, for example?
- The important role local authorities have in leading the
transformation process in the wider workforce, and beyond social
care
- 'Culture change' follows from behaviour change
- The important roles of human resource managers, educators, and
training & development staff in this process
- What do social workers think of the shift to self-directed
support?
- We asked the people who attended the Social Work and
Personalisation workshop in the morning what they thought.
The results are below.
Presentations and Resources
Downloads of the presentations, workshop notes and of some of
the resources that we talked about at the seminar are also
available below.
Last Updated : Saturday, February 12, 2011. Page Author: Paul Ferguson.
