THIRTY YEARS ON – THREE REPORTS
WITH ENDURING MESSAGES
Social Care Workforce
Research Unit
Dr Mary Baginsky
A Fair Assessment – Dr Christine Hayward
• Focus was on criteria for assessment
• Body of essential knowledge?
• Explicit or open
• Common core
• Research / theory / practice
Social Work courses – their structure and content – Dr Peter
Casson
140 courses and sampled 25
A form of liberal education or training for practice?
Centrality of practice teacher
Learning to Practice – a study of practice placements – Lucy
Syson with Mary Baginsky
Sampled 8 courses – 41 placements – student, PT and tutor
Expectations were met in 24 of the 41
Unrealistic or poorly defined expectations, poor supervision,
personality clashes, sickness ………..
PTs were unsighted on curricula
Commitment v burden
EMAIL
MARY.BAGINSKY@KCL.AC.UK