Service User Involvement in UK Social Service Agencies and Social Work Education

ABSTRACT

Forming partnerships with service users became a requirement for social work education programs in the United Kingdom as of 2003, leading to the development of innovative approaches to social work education that involve service users as experts who are helping to teach the future generation of social workers. This article examines the perceptions of service user involvement and how it is implemented in the United Kingdom in the social service sector and the university setting, and concludes with implications for the United States.

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Carolyn Goossen

Carolyn Goossen, MSW, is a Legislative Aide for Supervisor David Campos who represents District 9 on the elected San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Michael J. Austin is the Mack Professor of Nonprofit Management and Director of the Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services in the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.

Michael J. Austin

Carolyn Goossen, MSW, is a Legislative Aide for Supervisor David Campos who represents District 9 on the elected San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Michael J. Austin is the Mack Professor of Nonprofit Management and Director of the Mack Center on Nonprofit and Public Sector Management in the Human Services in the School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley.