Thanks Andy.
Given current Gov emphasis on Think Family stuff and move towards care management and family work, there needs to be input on 'working with families and couples'. Agree with Tony about 'Domestic violence' - really important, partic in light of couples/family work and safety issues.' Child protection' is missing it seems - indeed the whole safeguarding issue may be a way of summarising that more broadly and include adults and children. 'Theories and models of addiction' also prob needs spelling out, not just interventions, as does 'attitudes and values', both working with our own and other peoples. This came through strongly from service user feedback recently.
And i'd still be explicit about the inclusion of alcohol. how often do we see the phrase 'alcohol and substance misuse'!!
Thanks for doing this.
Sarah
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Dr Sarah Galvani
Principal Research Fellow and Assistant Director - Tilda Goldberg Centre for Research in Social Work and Social Care
Institute of Applied Social Research
University of Bedfordshire
Park Square
Luton
Bedfordshire
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>>> "A.C.Ashenhurst" <[log in to unmask]> 11/23/09 4:08 PM >>>
Dear All,
A meeting of Addiction Course Convenors (ACC) in Higher Education was held at Birmingham University on Thurs 19th November. One of the matters discussed was the way forward for HE programmes across the UK. With a somewhat parallel agenda the NTA have recently convened a Skills Symposium which is addressing the future training and education of practitioners working with problem substance users. Andy Ashenhurst was asked to liaise between the two groups in the first instance and present an ACC core curriculum at the next meeting of the NTA Symposium on December 4th.
At the ACC meeting those present agreed to develop a HE core curriculum for all members of the group. From an outsiders point of view it appears to be difficult to know what each of our programmes contains as they are so diverse. As a result the HE sector may be (is already) losing student and stakeholder support. If the HE sector was able to agree on a core curriculum, student applicants, their employers and ultimately their clients will have an across the board idea of what our programmes contain.
If a core curriculum is presented to the NTA meeting on 4th Dec, it will give other members of the symposium (most of whom are not NTA staff but service providers, service user groups, professional bodies, GPs etc) a basis for discussion about what a universal HE education and training agenda may look like in the future.
Attached is a first draft of a core curriculum. Please look through it, adding any broad topic areas you feel are missing and any brief comment that could help take this agenda forward. We have kept the categories deliberately broad at this stage to keep the process moving and leave room for people at the NTA symposium to add their inputs, but there is plenty of space for diversity within these categories.
To put such a core list to the meeting on 4th Dec will be a first step in presenting the HE sector as a coherent body in a wider influential setting. In order to meet the needs of service providers and clients, the sector seeks to negotiate with NTA Symposium members a way forward leading to national benchmarks and standards.
Thank you for your input by the end of November.
kind regards Andy
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