Of central importance to the development of a good empathic social worker is that they understand their common humanity with service users and carers, this requires humility and acceptance that we are all part of the human family and not separate species. Service Users and Carers play a vital role in helping social workers appreciate and understand the great importance of this together with other issues such as vulnerability, powerlessness, stigma, discrimination and inequality.  Knowing that social workers can become users and cares and vice versa helps to under score the great importance of this and through their lived experience users and carers can bring these vitally important insights and understandings in educating professionals.

• Assessing Students Readiness to Practise
• Audio podcasts from SWEP Conference
• Building user and carer involvement
• Carer Aware e-learning course – FREE
• Carers and their rights
• Carers stories from the Carers’ Resource, Harrogate, Craven and Airedale
• College merger talks with BASW Update
• Compare your caseload to other social workers
• Confidentiality and Information Sharing
• Creating a service user and carer centre on the virtual learning environments (VLEs)
• Definitions Service User and User Controlled
• Developing emotional intelligence
• Discrimination Prohibited
• Do you come here often
• Does He Take Sugar
• Doing it for ourselves
• Getting to Grips with Participation
• Growing spaces as a way of understanding and developing genuine partnerships
• Have you renewed your registration with the HCPC?
• Higher Education Academy Website
• How I went from social worker to service user
• Involvement Case study Anglia Ruskin University
• Involvement Case study Kingston and St George’s University
• Involvement Case study University of Leeds
• Jobs in Social Work
• List of videos produced by service users and carers
• Looking after ourselves
• Making Events Accessible
• Making It Real Conference Interviews Video
• Making It Real Conference Video of Interviews in Transcript
• Member of Parliament meets service users shaping social work education
• Mental Capacity Act training tool launched
• New Book Social Care Service Users & User Involvement
• Newly Qualified Social Workers
• On the receiving end
• Personal Holocaust
• Photos from SWEP conference
• Practice benchmarking study
• Recruiting and Retaining Social Workers
• Reflections on Involvement
• Report from University of Plymouth Service User and Carer Group
• Service user and carer workshop discussion and findings
• Shaping Our Lives report
• Sheffield Carers Voices
• Skills for Care conference – Social work: building the workforce together
• Store and manage social policy work and resources
• Supporting Involvement
• SWEP Making it Real Conference Report
• Taking Wellbeing forward theory and practice
• The Impact of Suicide on Others
• The Meaningful Involvement of Service Users and Carers.
• Toolkit Designed by Service User and Carer
• Transfer of Social Worker registration from the GSCC to the HCPC
• Useful Documents when working with Carers or for Carers Themselves
• User involvement in health and social care education – a concept analysis
• We are more than our story
• What is public engagement in Higher Education?
• When Services Fail