Social Work Online Team Training (SWOTT) Toolkits

About our Toolkits

Evidence-informed continuous professional development (CPD)

Social Work Online Team Training (SWOTT) toolkits – University of Sheffield

  • 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 social care CPD activity for practitioners in the fields of children’s social care, adults social care and mental health services.

Current Toolkit Themes Include
Neurodiversity Trauma Informed Practice Child Criminal Exploitation and Cuckooing Automatic Prejudice Mental Capacity Act
Home Visits Child Sexual Abuse Domestic Abuse Gender Diversity Restorative Practice

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

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

Protected: DRAFT: Toolkit for Anti-Racist Practice – Part 2

Adults Children & Families Mental Health

Protected: DRAFT: Toolkit for Anti-Racist Practice – Part 1

Adults Children & Families Mental Health

Protected: DRAFT: Understanding Coercive Control

Adults Children & Families Mental Health
graphic of Child with puppet strings

Introduction to Child & Adult Criminal Exploitation and Cuckooing

Children & Families
Montage about identity and gender diversity