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Doing Real-Life Change in Children's Social Care : Embedded Research in Practice / Jenny Lloyd and Rachael Owens.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lloyd, Jenny, author.
- Owens, Rachael, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social work with children.
- Social work with children--Evaluation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (219 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, England : Policy Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- All too often, human systems are criticised for failing those they are meant to serve. One example is the growing awareness of the overlooked needs of adolescents facing harm in their communities. This has highlighted a need for new systems that enable practice that is ethical, effective and grounded in supportive relationships. But how can this be achieved? Appealing to those interested in Contextual Safeguarding and beyond, this book shares ‘real-life’ lessons from research, covering: • Practical guidance and tools for changing systems using embedded methods; • Navigating complex relationships and emotions in organisational change; and • Using theory and concepts to support change. The book’s lively and creative style makes it accessible for researchers, students, professionals and anyone committed to system change in children’s social care.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Doing Real-Life Change in Children's Social Care: Embedded Research in Practice
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of exercises
- About the authors
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- Introduction
- What is real-.life change?
- What is embedded research?
- Who is this book for?
- What is this book about?
- What is this book not about?
- What is Contextual Safeguarding?
- Why did the system need to change?
- The Contextual Safeguarding framework and values
- The Scale-.Up project
- Conclusion
- Part I Methods for understanding and changing children's social care systems
- 2 Embedded methods for learning how the system works
- Mapping the social care system
- Choosing your methods
- Ethnographic methods
- Meeting observations
- Which meetings?
- What do I do?
- Observation strategies
- Ethics of observation
- Workplace ethnography
- Opportunistic office-.based conversations
- Handover notes
- 3 Methods for actively engaging with the system
- Discursive methods
- Case file review
- The case file review process
- Working with the findings from case file reviews
- Preparing for case review
- Reciprocal methods
- Consultation
- Supporting learning and development
- Negotiating how to respond to 'off-.plan' requests
- 4 Developing a plan and making changes
- The system review process
- Reflective meetings
- The system review meeting
- A brief interlude into the lives of researchers
- System change plans
- What to change
- Contextual Safeguarding system changes
- Pilots
- What to pilot?
- How to pilot
- Learning from pilots
- Consulting with young people and parents/.carers
- Conclusion.
- Part II Working with relationships, emotion and culture to change children's social care systems
- 5 Emotional containment and vulnerability in the change process
- Why relationships matter
- Tuning into relationships
- Starting embedded research relationships well
- Building emotionally containing research relationships
- Being 'good enough' researchers
- Building relationships online
- 6 A relational approach to cultural change
- What is culture?
- What kind of culture do we want?
- How culture influences professional practice
- Drawing on relationships to influence culture
- Parallel processes within systems
- Fostering empathy
- 7 Giving feedback on 'bad practice'
- What's the problem with feedback?
- Minimising defensiveness
- 'Bad practice'
- Feeling the feelings
- Giving feedback and channelling feelings
- The social discipline window
- Giving feedback to individuals
- Feedback in system reviews
- Channelling feelings
- Contextualising 'bad practice'
- Part III Theories and learning from doing system change in children's social care
- 8 Reasons to be hopeful
- Incremental change
- Stories of system and culture change
- Physical safety in a location
- School assessments to tackle harmful sexual behaviour
- Changing the culture of how parents and young people are viewed and treated
- System change that tackles systemic and structural harm
- 9 How theories can help us change systems
- Using psychosocial concepts for understanding systems
- Multisystemic thinking
- 10 Conclusion
- The impact of regional differences on system change
- Endings
- How do you let go?
- Fidelity and what happens next
- References.
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781447372400
- 1447372409
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