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Professor Roger Smith's Outputs (3)

Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything? (2023)
Journal Article
Smith, R. (2024). Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything?. The British Journal of Social Work, 54(3), 939-957. https://doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcad254

This article reflects on the cumulative outputs of evaluations of the various fast track qualifying programmes introduced into social work education in England over the past decade or so, in order to draw out some of the wider lessons available to us... Read More about Evaluating Fast Track Social Work-Qualifying Programmes: Have We Learnt Anything?.

Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs (2023)
Journal Article
Scourfield, J., Carpenter, J., Warner, N., Maxwell, N., Venn, L., Stepanova, E., O’Donnell, C., Jones, R., Elliott, M., & Smith, R. (2023). Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs. Journal of Social Work, 23(6), 1022-1042. https://doi.org/10.1177/14680173231194432

Summary: Two fast-track child and family social work training programs have been established in England — Step Up to Social Work and Frontline. Trainees’ financial support is far higher than for mainstream social work degrees. One of the reasons clai... Read More about Retention in statutory social work from fast-track child and family programs.