Podcast discussion with Carlene Firmin, who developed the contextual safeguarding approach and a practitioner whose local authority is implementing it.
Resources to help develop the fundamental skills social workers across all types of children's social care teams need to do their jobs
A critically reflective look at the concept of ‘disguised compliance’: how it has come to be applied in practice today and ways to approach barriers to engagement using relationship-based social work
Practical tips for social workers to write useful, person-centred chronologies that benefit service users and aid analysis, rather then being an administrative chore.
Tips on using strengths-based practice to cope with difficult conversations that can arise during care assessments.