Service User Involvement in UK Social Service Agencies and Social Work Education

Forming partnerships with service users became a requirement for social

work education programs in the United Kingdom as of 2003, leading to the

development of innovative approaches to social work education that

involve service users as experts who are helping to teach the future generation

of social workers. This article examines the perceptions of service

user involvement and how it is implemented in the United Kingdom in the

social service sector and the university setting, and concludes with implications

for the United States.