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It's not just training courses. I think
there's a reality that social workers will

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always get incredibly beneficial learning
from training courses. I have, in my, in

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my career as a social worker. I've always
benefited a lot from training courses and

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social workers will continue to do so.
They'll continue to provide really good

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learning for social workers, whatever that
training course is. But, for us, we have-,

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we really wanted to broaden out that
definition of CPD to, to not just focus on

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training courses, to have it much more-,
much more open for social workers to

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tap into whatever CPD feels right for
them, because there's the reality how we

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all learn in different ways, although I've
always got a lot out of training courses.

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That really doesn't fit with my learning
style. I learn better by myself when I can

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watch a podcast, or watch a YouTube video,
or, I'll read something, take my own time

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to then absorb that information and, and
then reflect. That is my learning style,

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and I think there's a reality that
people's learning styles are different.

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So, if we're just focussing on training
courses, we really didn't want feel-, it

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to feel that restrictive.

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There's lots of things that you can do, as
I've mentioned there, podcasts. I get a

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lot of out of podcasts, always have done,
always listen to a lot of different

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podcasts and, for me, that is a good way
for me to, sort of, learn and develop and

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reflect. But, there's lots of other things
that you can be doing, just reading

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resources, reading a policy, reading a
guidance, reading a-, some case law,

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reading a piece of legislation, all that
kind of thing can offer really good value.

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There's obviously still a-, training
courses, but things like-, things online,

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this in itself that me talking to you can
be CPD, if it's then going to go on and

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have an impact on your practice and you're
going to reflect on it. Those discussions

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with colleagues, I think, offer incredible
value in terms of CPD and have always

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been-,

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certainly have always been a feature of my
practices as a social worker and I think,

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even now that I'm not in a front line
role, the regional engagement leads all

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regularly get together and, and just
reflect and I think that offers, offers

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really good value to us. So, 'think
creatively' is what the point of this

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slide is. Think about what, what works
best for you, how you learn. The key is

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that you then reflect on it. So, whatever
the activity is, you then reflect on it

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and then it has an impact on your
practice. You can then take that away and,

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and think about your practice in a
different way, or do an assessment in a

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different way, or a new theory has made
you think differently about your approach

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and all that kind of thing. That's the
key, that's the key for us, it's that

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reflection.