It is challenging to keep a ‘links’ page up-to-date so please do let me know if you find errors or ‘dead’ links.
Useful websites for social work practice educators in Scotland and beyond
Reflective Journal Demonstration Blog is a demonstration of how blogging can be used by a social work student as a reflective journal. It is an open blog because it is fully anonymised. It is old now but the principles and basic operations remain the same.
More general websites for social workers in Scotland
Institute for Research & Innovation in Social Services (IRISS) – The movers and shakers in innovation in social services in Scotland.
Social Services Knowledge Scotland (SSKS) is a gateway to a wealth of information and learning materials to support practitioners in day to day work and in learning. There are good links to other sites but also good, mostly free, access to electronic journals. There is an excellent range of free, online training on this site too.
FutureLearn is an online resource packed with useful and interesting courses. Enhance your knowledge of key healthcare problems, develop your practical care skills, and improve patient care with these online care courses.
Practical Ethics: ethics in the news – This blog offers interesting comment on topical ethical issues.
Changing Lives – This site has been set up as an archive for all products and information from the Scottish Government’s ‘Changing Lives’ change programme for social work services in Scotland, based on the 21st century review of social work.
Cassiobury’s Court’s ‘A-Z guide to Foetal Alcohol Syndrome’, written by Paul Clarke, is a new (May2016) resource. It covers how alcohol damages an unborn baby, diagnosing FAS, treating FAS and it also discusses current advice on the level of ‘safe’ alcohol consumption for pregnant women.
Fetal Alcohol Harm is a free CPD course on foetal alcohol harm which is available through Education Scotland. It provides comprehensive and up-to-date information for professionals on the prevention, identification and management of fetal alcohol harm. It will be of interest to health professionals, social care professionals, foster carers, educationalists and others working with anyone who may have been affected by maternal alcohol use in pregnancy.