I chose Social Work as my elective as it is something I have always found interesting. Partly because my mum’s best friend is a social worker and has told me many stories about how useful knowing some of their theories will be to me in my teaching career. Our module is all about collaborative advantage and what it means to work together. I feel that the research I am currently doing for my assignment will benefit me in my future teaching career. So far I have researched: GIRFEC, the GTCS, Scottish Social Services Council and CLD standards. I am now beginning to understand how they all interlink and the importance of understanding other professions and their values.

Working alongside CLD and Social Work students is very interesting. I believe this will be beneficial for the future as we will all have to work with each profession in order to solve multiple problems associated within working with children across all three careers. I hope that learning to work together with trainee social workers and CLD students now, will make me more confident in working collaboratively in the future. Collaboration is extremely important amongst many professions in order to avoid tragedies such as the death of Victoria Climbe.

For our placement on the 26th of October. My group will be visiting PAMIS. A Dundee charity which works with children who suffer from multiple disabilities and their families. Through reading up on PAMIS I have discovered that they also raise funds to better the lives of the people they work with. They run several schemes which support families throughout their journey, they also have a bereavement and loss service and try their best to provide accessible leisure to disabled children. I am extremely looking forward to seeing their work first hand and hope that I can learn valuable lessons which I will be able to take forward with me into my teaching career.