Keeping It Real: Service User and Carer Involvement in Professional Education: A National Conference

We invite you to join us for a national conference to share and promote best practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education. The conference will bring together service users and carers, students, educators, professionals and policy-makers. It will be relevant to social work, health, education and other areas of professional education, at qualifying and post-qualifying levels.

Speakers include Unity Service Users and Carers Group; David Douglas, Heartfelt; Linda Clark, Scottish Social Services Council and the conference sets out to:

-Showcase good practice in service user and carer involvement in professional education and post-qualifying education and training;

-Share learning points and development ideas;

-Draw on students’ and professionals’ experiences of the involvement of service users and carers in their courses;

-Explore key challenges and ways to overcome them.

For further information, please contact Lynn Maher at lynn.maher@stir.ac.uk

Attendance is free but please book in advance.