Evaluation of a pilot of 120-day practice learning contingency measure in Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic

This report presents the findings of an independent evaluation of the 120-day practice learning opportunity (PLO) offered to final year social work undergraduate and postgraduate students from three universities in the West of Scotland. The PLO, which differed from the standard practice learning pattern in being a single, longer period of practice learning as opposed to two or more shorter placements, was a response to the challenges in sourcing PLOs accelerated by the COVID-19 pandemic.