Personalisation, support brokerage and social work — what are we teaching social work students?

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The authors describe how social work students on placement at the Realife Trust Student Unit have been able to explore the potential of support brokerage to promote self-directed support by disabled people and family carers. The students complete brokerage training as part of the placement and are required to compare and contrast the key competencies required by the General Social Care Council with the knowledge base and job description of support brokers defined by the National Brokerage Network in the UK. Lead author, Tony Phillips argues that brokerage provides an opportunity for the social work profession to return to its practitioner roots and reject the aberrations of the care management model as having little or no relevance to the development of a social care system based on the policy of personalisation. Three social work students from three different cohorts of the unit provide their own first-hand accounts of the challenges involved and insights gained.View full textDownload full textKeywordssupport brokerage, social work training, personalisation, self-directed supportRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2010.500130