Supporting teaching, training and learning

SCIE has an ongoing commitment to the support, development and practice of effective social care. By supporting social care training and learning SCIE aims to implement these messages at the earliest opportunity: at the very beginning of a career in social work.

Whether you are lecturing or studying at NVQ, degree or post-qualifying level in social work or social care, SCIE can help provide resources to aid your teaching, research, case studies or dissertation. Alternatively, SCIE can provide the platform to pinpoint further reading and multimedia resources for both students and teaching staff.

Social Care Online

Social Care Online is useful for anyone training in or learning about social care. It provides essential evidence for essays, dissertations and case studies.

Social Care Online is the UK’s most extensive free database of social care information. Updated daily and containing over 100,000 fully abstracted resources on all aspects of social care and with content spanning 20 years, it is an essential tool in helping you understand social care issues and how they have developed.

• Visit www.scie-socialcareonline.org.uk to find out more.

SCIE's e-learning resources

SCIE provides students and lecturers with engaging e-learning resources in key curriculum areas. These free resources use a wide range of media and activity types and lend themselves to use as self-study materials or for use within the classroom.

On the SCIE website you will find 20 e-learning resources on Law and social work and An Introduction to the Mental Health of Older People. A further 36 resources are being launched throughout 2008.

• Find out more about SCIE's e-learning resources.

Sign up for a chance to win an iPod

We want to keep in contact with you. Our resources, guidance, events and networks will help you now and throughout your social care career. And your views and experiences will help us to provide the best possible service. So register today - and let's help each other.

First year social work student in England, Wales and Northern Ireland who register their details before the end of June will have the chance to win one of three iPod Nanos.

A winner will be selected in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

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