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Notes to be read in conduction
with the implementation plan
Our stakeholders represent
education, justice, health and social
care, not-for-profit organisations
and service users and carers but
all with a common interest in the
social work and social care. It is
inevitable therefore that agreed
actions that need to be progressed
will sit differently depending on
respective social work roles and
functions. For example academic
institutions charged with educating
social work and social care staff;
organisations with policy and
strategic and commissioning
functions; organisations with
operational functions inclusive of
learning and development and
governance; those with regulation
and improvement functions. All have
a role in relation to outcomes for
service users and carers.
This plan is focused on your
organization's research and
evidence involvement or capacity,
not your organization's plans or
capacity in general.
The plan is designed to reflect
actions to address in the immediate,
the medium and longer term over
the life of the research community
and research and continuous
improvement strategy. When the
strategy and the plan were devised
it was during a period of the Covid 19
pandemic which inevitably impacted.
Whilst not wishing to see this as a
barrier, given that research and
evidence are even more crucial at
time that are challenging ,account
never less needs to be taken of this.
In particular new work pressures
faced by staff and organisations
as a result of the pandemic.
Equally however there have been
new opportunities created with
more flexibility and better use of
various technology and social
media that support networking and
engagement that need to be further
capitalised.
The action plan relates to the
four key aims of our research
agenda: collective leadership;
increasing engagement; generating
knowledge for better outcomes and
strengthening credibility which are
also interrelated to the five individual
focus areas addressed in the
strategy:
1. Building collaborative
networks through engagement
and involvement;
2. Research Priorities;
3. Securing Investment;
4. Inspiring research leadership,
competence and capacity
amongst staff and service users
and carers; and,
5. Research and evidence utilisation
and knowledge transfer.
Designing an implementation plan that reflects the very different roles
and functions of our stakeholders brings with it a number of challenges
but also a number of very positive opportunities for greater collaboration
working and engagement.