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Copyright
All material in these e-learning resources, including text, graphics, photographs, video and audio is copyright of the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), unless otherwise stated. Use of these resources, and import of the resources into learning management systems, for educational purposes is freely permitted, but commercial use of this learning resource is not authorised unless permission is first obtained from SCIE.
Authors
Sarah Carr
Sarah Carr is a Senior Research Analyst at the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE), currently leading on the organisation's personalisation work and advising on the policy at a national level. She has also worked for the National Institute for Social Work, Oxleas NHS Trust and at the Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health in research and information roles. In addition to her post at SCIE, Sarah is currently an Honorary Fellow at the Faculty of Health at Staffordshire University, an Executive Committee member of the Social Perspectives Network (SPN) and a Board Member of the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi). She has also been a Trustee of PACE, London's largest charity promoting the mental health and emotional wellbeing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community. She is a long-term user of mental health services and has written on her own experiences as well as general mental health practice and policy, LGB welfare and equality issues, service user empowerment and participation.
Ali Gardner
Ali Gardner is a senior lecturer on the social work programme at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU). She has a background in teaching, policy, consultancy, research and social work practice in the field of learning disability and self directed support. More recently Ali has led a partnership project with MMU and the Department of Health (Putting People First team) to embed personalisation within the social work curriculum nationally.
Pam Trevithick
Instructional design and overall project management
Technical development
CIMEX (www.cimex.com) is a London-based media company that specialises, amongst other things, in the development of e-learning products. This project is the fifth that the company has worked on with SCIE – the others being 'Law and Social Work', 'An Introduction to the Mental Health of Older People', 'Poverty, Parenting and Social Exclusion' and 'Communication skills'. These resources can be viewed at: www.scie.org.uk.
Video Content
All the video extracts used in the e-learning resources are taken from the Social Care TV programmes 'Personalisation for older people: living at home', 'Personalisation for someone with a learning disability' and 'Personalisation for someone with a physical disability'. To view the programmes in full and to see other related programmes on Personalisation and other Social Work and Social Care topics please visit Social Care TV at: www.scie.org.uk
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