Further Education in Social Services

The bachelor's thesis deals with further education in social services. The theoretical part describes social work, its types, forms and it explains the concept of quality in social services in relation to the standards of social services. It also includes a sub-chapter that deals with the financing of social services. The concept of continuing education in social services is mentioned in the theoretical part as well as a professional development and also there is a sub-chapter that explains the accreditation of educational institutions and accreditation of educational programs. The aim of the study was to determine the most commonly used forms of further education applied in social services as well as the most beneficial forms of continuing education for social workers and social service workers and a dependence of funding of various forms of continuing education by providers of social services. The results, obtained from a mixed research for mapping this issue more broadly, are described in the practical part. At first a qualitative research was realized by using semi-structured interview with senior staff in selected social service facilities. In order to process the issue more broadly a quantitative research survey was carried out and was based on email answers from executives of facilities listed in the registry of social service providers from across the country. The results from the mixed research provided not only answers to the research questions but also contributed to meeting the determined targets. The thesis should serve the increase of the awareness in the field of further education of social workers and workers in social services and also could possibly serve as a base for further research