Involving service users and carers in social work education

Finally

Finally, the 'Principles of partnership arrangements for the social work degree' (13) also apply to the development of local protocols on service user and carer involvement as they cover all the stakeholder groups. The seven principles are:

• fitness for purpose;
• valuing diversity both within and between stakeholder groups;
• flexibility and adaptability with defined review standards;
• clear lines of accountability, which recognise the contributions different stakeholders will make;
• transparency of decision making and funding allocation;
• value for money;
• overt acknowledgement of the benefits and costs of maintaining partnership arrangements.