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
Hub page gathers practice guidance, learning tools and legal information on different aspects of safeguarding and working with adolescents, and models and approaches social workers can use.
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
Different models for what a pre-birth risk assessment should include, plus how to build good relationships and work effectively with other professionals, the parents and any extended family.
Practical tips for social workers to write useful, person-centred chronologies that benefit service users and aid analysis, rather then being an administrative chore.