Draft
12.30
1.15
1.45
2.15
3.30
10.00
10.30
10.35
SOCIAL CARE WORKFORCE RESEARCH INITIATIVE
Seminar, 6 th November 2007, 10.30am – 4.0pm
Room LG 20/21 Wellington House, 133 -155 Waterloo Road, London, SE1.
(Waterloo u/ground, Waterloo Rd exit, turn right, past Old Vic and on the left)
Wheelchair access from Waterloo Road
Programme
Coffee and registration
Put up posters
Welcome
10.50
11.10
11.30
Initiative overview
Policy context (Speaker)
Questions
Introductions via project posters
Establishing common expectations
Group discussion
LUNCH
4.0
Feedback from group discussions
Future coordination of the Initiative
Questions/discussion
End
Involving People Who Use Services - Jo Moriarty
Group discussion
‘Involve’ speaker

Aims for the day
To:

facilitate project members meeting and contact with policy makers

establish common interests and potential for networking

engage with the perspectives of People Who Use Services and their roles in the projects

assist understanding of policy issues and development

clarify DH role and requirements and practical issues

formulate common thematic links (e.g.diversity) for future researcher days
Desired outcomes for researcher days in general

Create/encourage networking among researchers

Learn about emerging common themes and practical issues

Discover/strengthen links to other relevant research

Identify/spread good practice/successful strategies

Inform people about DH objectives, and requirements

Inform planning of future coordination

Gain added value from initiative by: identifying and developing the intellectual connections between the individual studies; encouraging and supporting methodological innovation within and across the individual studies.
2

Briefing sheet
11.10 Introductions via project posters
Projects should devise a poster which communicates the projects’ aims and intended outcomes. This can include symbols which convey ideas/concepts
(e.g. bulb
– enlightenment!). Be creative and introduce some humour (if possible) and be prepared to explain what may not be obvious! The posters will be put up on the walls at the beginning of the day. In this session, each member of the project will stay with the poster in turn (about 5 minutes) while other members and stakeholders
‘visit’ other project posters to learn what the project is about and introduce themselves. This is meant to be light-hearted as well as informative!
11.30 Establishing common expectations
Group discussion
These discussions will be grouped around the four broad areas of work set out in the SCWRI Information sheet:
Recruitment and retention (3 projects)
Training and qualifications (2 projects)
Graduating in social work (2 projects)
New ways of working (2 projects)
Groups will include research users/policy people. These members will generate 3 questions they hope the research will answer
Simultaneously, project teams will generate three important questions they think the research will answer for research users (either each project, or collectively).
Then both parties present, compare and comment on each others questions…. identify common issues members would like to discuss/take forward.
2.15 Involving People Who Use Services
Group discussion
Follow up issues raised by the speakers for this session and of People Who
Use Services representatives on the projects..
3