A podcast about strengths-based practice, how it's different from asset-based practice, and how to use it in conversations.
Learn how the contextual safeguarding approach was developed, how it has been applied to date and how you might use it in your own practice.
How to approach the first meeting with a young person or adolescent, using intersectionality and systemic perspective to consider a young person's overlapping lived experience of race, gender, class, sexuality, abiltiy/disability and so on
Podcast discussion with Carlene Firmin, who developed the contextual safeguarding approach and a practitioner whose local authority is implementing it.
Written transcript of 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
Simulated scenario role-plays of common social work conversations with reflective commentary and questions to help social workers implement relationship-based approaches.