Our paper is rooted in a 3year Institutional Ethnography of 6 #socialcare sites in the UK, showing that service-level #innovation alone is not enough to transform practice and outcomes for young people - by
@carlenefirmin.bsky.social @michellelefevre.bsky.social @klanghoff.bsky.social
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A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms
This article presents representative accounts from efforts in six social care departments in the UK to use innovation to improve their responses to young p
So proud that our paper has been selected as 'Editor's Choice' in this issue of the British Journal of Social Work. In it, we draw 'A Line in the Sand', challenging policymakers to reform system foundations in order to effectively safeguard young people abused beyond the home doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...
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Booking's full for our webinar on new directions in youth safeguarding - sorry! But if you sign up for the Innovate Project mailing list, our next e-newsletter will have a link to the recording for you to watch at your leisure. Sign up here: universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
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Interested in how to innovate in social care and related settings? Take a look at the latest paper from the Innovate Project - it's free to access!
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Creating positive change in childrenβs social care
Encouraging and implementing new practices is helping improve childrenβs social care systems for vulnerable young people and their families.
We're delighted to share an ESRC impact case of the Innovate Project published by @ukri.org. Interviewing project lead @michellelefevre.bsky.social, the piece describes how the project findings and outputs are helping to change practice in #socialcare and #safeguarding www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...
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Hot off the press! Our new paper challenges social care services to rethink what 'value for money' might mean if it were young people setting the outcome indicators. Open access at doi.org/10.1177/0017.... By @michellelefevre.bsky.social and twitter.com/Lisa_Holmes_...
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That would be gratefully received, thank you!
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The Innovate Project | Researching youth, risk and complexity
Exploring how services are addressing extra-familial risks experienced by young people; building new knowledge about the processes of innovation in social care.
The Innovate Project has now jumped ship from the bird place to connect on all matters related to social work and social care innovation and adolescent safeguarding - looking forward to connecting! You can learn more about us at www.theinnovateproject.co.uk and from @michellelefevre.bsky.social
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It's what we're for. For better business. For fairer societies. Based @york.ac.uk.
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The Centre for Innovation and Research in Childhood and Youth is a Centre of Excellence at the University of Sussex. Find out more about our work: https://www.sussex.ac.uk/esw/circy/
Associate Professor of Social Work, Uni of Chester. #UKRIFLF Researcher of lived-experience led criminal justice. Widnesian with Maltese sparkle. Views mine. https://imaginejustice.co.uk/
UK (NW) Health & Social Care researcher, mentor, wife, mum, nana, foster carer, volunteer with refugees.
#youngcarers #CYP
Eternal optimist, loving family and life; coffee, cat & nature lover.
Stage 4 #neuroendocrine cancer patient #NETs
Social care, health, strategy & policy, local government & communities, furry animals, good coffee. Registered Social Worker.
Made in Wales π΄σ §σ ’σ ·σ ¬σ ³σ Ώ
project officer, working on the family justice system; interested in research & practice in services for children and families
Researcher at CPEC LSE, co-directs social care rapid evaluation team and deputy for policy innovation and evaluation research unit. Tweets my personal views
assistant prof criminology teaching legal, ethical & social issues AI/sociology of law @VUB research: digital & more-than-human criminology, surveillance & AI, youth justice, human rights
https://researchportal.vub.be/en/persons/rosamunde-elise-van-brakel
Human Rights activist. She/her. Leads on policy work @unlockcharity.
Views very much my own. Except when I nicked them from my betters.
Arsenal supporter.
Mummy who spent time in prison trying to find her way in academia. Research Associate at the University of Sheffield and Lecturing at LTU. Research interests CCE, children in care, lived experience criminology, gendered justice and participatory approaches
Social Worker in Dublin. Personal account.
Social worker & art psychotherapist with a passion for life story work. And Man City. SS 118 π©΅ www.blossomsocialworktraining.co.uk
Emeritus Prof of Social Work at QUB. Still interested in exploring theory to inform & support social work practice. Relational ethics; critical thinking/decision making; family support. Also plants & politics
Director of Research in Practice | Strategic Director @ National Childrenβs Bureau. Trustee of Family Action.
All views & swearing my own. Expert in nowt (except maybe Transitional Safeguarding).
Actually, βranting with referencesβ is a job.
Professor of Digital and Social Science. Working at various sociotechnical intersections.
Also on LinkedIn
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The official Bluesky account for the British Association of Social Workers. We are the UK's largest professional association for social work.
The Professional Association for Social Work and social workers, part of BASW UK.
Challenging and changing adult social care language and practice #RewritingSocialCare #LanguageMatters #UsNotThemAndUs
https://rewritingsocialcare.blog/
Head of Practice Guide Development.
Lover of life, art, history, food, nature, travel & laughter
#socialwork #equity #unity
Social Worker. Fostering Services Manager, Action for Children NI. BASW NI Committee. Co-author 'Social Work & Co-production' - ESSA shortlist 2022. 'If adoption is the answer, what was the question?' in The Future of Children's Social Care (eds Sen/Kerr)
