Service Users and Carers as Partners in the Curriculum: an interactive staff development day

In May 2006 the School of Health, Community and Education Studies at Northumbria University held a staff development day focusing on service user and carer involvement in the curriculum which was attended to CETL partners. The event aimed to raise awareness of the involvement agenda and provide the opportunity to learn from the established good practice of colleagues and service users.

The pdf and Word documents and PowerPoint presentations below aim to take you through the events of the day:

	Service users and Carers as Partners in the Curriculum: an interactive staff development day Description: A flyer promoting the staff development day and outlining proceedings. Link: [pdf file]
	Programme Description: An outline of the planned activities for the 'People with Experience' workstream. Link: [Word document]
	Welcome and Programme Outline Description:Welcome from Dr Anna Jones, Chair of the School's Service User and Carer Sub-Committee and CETL Fellow (Deputy Convenor of the People with Experience Work Stream) Link: [Powerpoint file]
	Old Spice Drama Group Set the Scene Description: Old Spice presented a series of sketches and poems on the themes of health and safety for older people. You can find out about Old Spice by following the link below. Link:  [Word document]
	Same Agenda, Different Perspectives Description: A panel of service users and carers, students, administrators and academics share their insights. You can find out how they planned their presentation by following the link below. Link: [Word document]
	Workshops Description: Six workshops were presented by members of School staff, service users and carers. You can find out more about their aims and planned outcomes by following the link below. Link: [Word document]
	Service users and carers: partners in admissions - workshop Description: This Powerpoint presentation addresses the Who, How and What of involvement in the selection of students for the BSc Social Work degree. Link: [Powerpoint Presentation]
	Participatory research: issues and challenges - workshop Description: You can see the flip charts produced during this session by following the link below. Link: [Word document]
	Involving service users and carers in the Approved Social Work programme - Reflecting and learning from the process - workshop Description: This PowerPoint presentation will tell you more about this initiative and the lessons learnt. Link: [Powerpoint Presentation]
	Making it happen: issues and challenges of service user involvement in health and social care Description: Two members of School staff were awarded Small Research Grant funding to develop a manual to support staff to involve service users and carers in the curriculum. This PowerPoint presentation presents background and early results from the project. Link: [Powerpoint Presentation]
	Signposts Description: This document gives details of contacts in relation to service user and carer involvement within Northumbria University and CETL4HealthNE. Link: [Word document]
	Evaluation Description: The event was evaluated and you can see the form we used and the results we got back from approximately 30% of the attendees. Links: 160606 Evaluation form, Feedback on staff development day Link: [Word document]