Social Work Online Team Training (SWOTT) Toolkits

About our Toolkits

Evidence-informed continuous professional development (CPD)

Social Work Online Team Training (SWOTT) toolkits

  • Created by experts to utilise cutting-edge research to improve practice
  • Bringing the team together to share good practice through critical reflection and peer learning
  • Fulfilling CPD requirements

We provide everything you need to deliver effective CPD activity for practitioners in the health and social care sector.

Current Toolkits

Adult Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA)

An Introduction to Child & Adult Criminal Exploitation and Cuckooing

An Introduction to Child Welfare Inequalities: Poverty

An Introduction to Neurodiversity

An Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice

Child Welfare Interventions at the Intersection of Ethnicity and Deprivation

Data(,) Power & Social Work

Human Rights practice and the Mental Capacity Act – Current Issues and Controversies

Participation in child protection proceedings

Restorative Practice and Restorative Conversations

The power of small gestures during home visits

Understanding automatic prejudice: Strengthening social work practice with Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities

Understanding Coercive Control Understanding identity and gender diversity: Working with trans and gender diverse people (mental health social work) Understanding identity and gender diversity: Working with trans and gender diverse young people

Us Too: Domestic Abuse, Sexual Violence & Women with Learning Disabilities and Autistic Women

Toolkit for Anti-Racist Practice – COMING SOON!


How Does It Work?

SWOTT enables a new structured approach to group CPD and consists of two learning activities: an online module and a group critical reflective supervision. All toolkits are evidence-informed. They offer flexible and accessible CPD requiring short bursts of activity. Completion of a SWOTT toolkit enables transformative learning by:

  • increasing critical reflective practice through team discussion between peers
  • the application of new reflective tools
  • creating the opportunity for peer learning and facilitating the sharing of expertise
  • better team communication and team building (“getting to know one another better”)
  • enabling new knowledge and insights informed by up-to-date theory and research

Teams agree on a toolkit to complete and each individual works through the online learning at their own pace. The online learning is designed to take no more than 90 minutes to complete. Next the team get together to discuss a complex case study. The facilitators have guidance to help them with this discussion and to ensure it is informed by the online learning. We provide you with everything you need.

Toolkits come in three parts:

  • online individual learning
  • complex case study for team discussion
  • guidance for facilitators

Check out our Membership Page for more information about getting access to SWOTT.

Sample toolkits

Line drawing of a head that is now a fish-bowl with a fish jumping out at a star

An Introduction to Neurodiversity

Adults Children & Families Mental Health
silhouette of man, bench, and bare tree

An Introduction to Trauma-Informed Practice

Adults Children & Families Mental Health
Cloister arches

Human Rights practice and the Mental Capacity Act – Current Issues and Controversies

Adults Children & Families Mental Health
An empty swing against autumn leaves

Adult Disclosure of Childhood Sexual Abuse (CSA)

Adults Mental Health
Montage about identity and gender diversity