Community Care magazine launches new student resource site
Student Zone site offers guides to training and reading materials, as well as expert advice and forum space for social work and social care students
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Community Care magazine has launched a new microsite aimed at students, after an idea from its readers' forum CareSpace. The Student Zone site offers guides to training and reading materials, as well as expert advice and forum space for social work and social care students.
According to community editor Simeon Brody, the Community Care team noticed a growing number of students using its discussion forum to ask for advice and share experiences of training and work and wanted to cater for this developing readership.
"We decided to set up Student Zone as a home for our growing student readership, a hub which would bring together newly commissioned content with relevant existing content and signpost the student discussions on CareSpace. It also links to revenue-generating services such as jobs, events and our online practice resource, Inform," Brody told Journalism.co.uk.
"About three-quarters of the launch content is newly-commissioned, with lots of how-to guides and top tips on things like tackling social work essays or getting the best out of a work placement. It is almost all third-party content from academics or students.
"As time goes on we will use the home page to signpost more of our existing news and features that might be particularly interesting to social work students."
While the student site is still part of Community Care online, Brody said it was important for it to have a different look and feel from other parts of the network.
"It does have a slightly separate identity because we feel that students have a distinct set of needs and we have learned from CareSpace that they really value networking and sharing information with each other. We wanted them to feel we had created a space just for them," he said.
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Laura Oliver is a freelance journalist, a contributor to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, co-founder of The Society of Freelance Journalists and the former editor of Journalism.co.uk (prior to it becoming JournalismUK)
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