SCIE Resource guide 12: The learning, teaching and assessment of partnership work in social work education

Ways forward: Introduction

This section draws together the key issues identified throughout this resource guide and suggests some factors that need to be considered in taking forward partnership learning, both in theory and in practice. These fall into four areas:

• recent thinking on the concept of partnership
• signposts provided by good practice in teaching and learning
• developments in partnership working, in particular the active involvement of people who use services and their carers
• an evolving model for partnership working