Talking Research in Children’s Social Care Podcast
Government
Welcome to the Talking Research in Children’s Social Care Podcast from What Works for Children's Social Care - bringing you the latest on evidence-based practice to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. In each episode we will be discussing our new research and what this means for practitioners and the families they work with. We will be hearing from researchers, participants, senior leaders and social workers.
Location:
United States
Description:
Welcome to the Talking Research in Children’s Social Care Podcast from What Works for Children's Social Care - bringing you the latest on evidence-based practice to improve outcomes for children, young people and families. In each episode we will be discussing our new research and what this means for practitioners and the families they work with. We will be hearing from researchers, participants, senior leaders and social workers.
Language:
English
Episodes
Understanding residential care for children in care in England
10/20/2022
In this podcast, Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude, looks at our report into understanding residential care. With Eve Smyth, Quantitative Research Associate, she discusses what the findings tell us about who the children are living in these placements, as well as their journeys before and after entering the system.
She also talks to Lisa Pascoe, Deputy Director of Regulation and Social Care Policy at Ofsted, to discuss the findings further, Ofsted’s role in residential care and what...
Duration:00:25:02
Commissioning secure children’s home placements in England
10/18/2022
In this episode of this series, Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude, looks in more detail at our report into the commissioning of secure children’s home placements in England. She is joined by Eleanor Briggs, Director of Research, who helps explain the widely reported discrepancies between bed occupancies in secure children’s homes and demand, as well as the challenges faced in allocating suitable places.
Nimal also talks to Alice Roe, a lead researcher at Nuffield Family Justice...
Duration:00:27:19
Understanding service provision for children in need in England
10/12/2022
In this episode of the podcast, Director of Practice Anna Bacchoo discusses the findings of our report into the support offered to children and their families on a Child in Need plan. Along with Director of Research, Aoife O'Higgins, they explore how the report added to the limited existing knowledge base to create a clearer picture, not only of who the children on these plans are, but how the plan is delivered and what it achieves.
"Understanding service provision for Children in Need in...
Duration:00:14:25
Understanding formal kinship care arrangements in England
10/6/2022
In this first episode of our new Independent Review of Children’s Social Care series, presenter Anna Bacchoo, Director of Practice, discusses our recent report into formal kinship care agreements in England. This report was part of a body of research we contributed for the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.
In a conversation with Director of Research Aoife O’Higgins, they look at both kinship foster care whilst in care, and Special Guardianship Orders (SGO) granted to kin, and...
Duration:00:23:06
Strengthening Families, Protecting Children - Family Valued
8/15/2022
In this episode we discussed our pilot evaluation of Family Valued. This study was part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme and commissioned by the Department for Education.
SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care.
Family Valued was originally developed by...
Duration:00:18:36
Strengthening Families Protecting Children - No Wrong Door
8/15/2022
In this episode we’ll be discussing the recent pilot evaluation of No Wrong Door, part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme and commissioned by the Department for Education.
SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care.
No Wrong Door was developed by North...
Duration:00:19:59
Strengthening Families, Protecting Children - Family safeguarding with Cambridgeshire County Council
8/15/2022
In this episode we discuss our pilot evaluation of Family Safeguarding, part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme commissioned by the Department for Education.
SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care. This was the first report we published as part of SFPC in...
Duration:00:23:04
The Future of Children's Services Under Covid. Jenny Cole - President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services
11/13/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this edition of our podcast, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, speaks with Jenny Coles, who became the President of the Association of Directors of Children’s Services in April of this year. Jenny is also the Director of Children’s Services in Hertfordshire County Council.
Jenny discusses the positive outcomes of this difficult time, such as the...
Duration:00:28:01
Inclusion and Care in Schools During Covid with Rachael Pryor -Bristol City Council
9/24/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special. In this episode we are delighted to be joined by Rachael Pryor, Head of Service, Inclusive City and Virtual School Headteacher at Bristol City Council.
In this episode, Rachael discusses how lockdown helped herself and her team think differently about how they organise their time more effectively, in particular with children who are being educated outside of the local authority. Rachael also...
Duration:00:18:00
Communication, cooperation, calmness and coffee breaks
9/4/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special. In this episode we are delighted to be joined by three of the senior leaders from Telford and Wrekin Council - Clive Jones, the out-going Executive Director, Children’s and Family Services; Jo Britton, who is is taking over the role and has been Director of Children’s Safeguarding and Family Support at the Council; and Heather Loveridge, Director of Education and Skills.
In this episode, Clive,...
Duration:00:33:03
Relationships and partnerships - Jenny Turnross discusses how Birmingham are responding to COVID-19
8/15/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, talks to Jenny Turnross, Director Of Practice at Birmingham Children’s Trust.
In her conversation with Michael, Jenny discusses how forming a partnership operation group with all departments working with children and families allowed Birmingham Children’s Trust to cut through bureaucracy and achieve a...
Duration:00:35:03
Julia Hassall, Rochdale - resilience and Skype discos during lockdown
7/31/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, talks to Julia Hassall, the Assistant Director for Children’s Social Care in Rochdale.
Julia discusses how Rochdale’s relational approach to practice guided their response to COVID-19, how they embraced creative solutions - such as recordings of lullabies, direct work through windows, Easter egg...
Duration:00:28:38
Social work during COVID-19 with Richard Devine, a social worker in BANES
7/24/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, talks to Richard Devine, a Social Worker for Bath and North East Somerset (@RichardDevineSW).
Richard discusses the impact of remote working, the cumulative effect of ‘mildly difficult’ situations and missing the moments of reflection and decompression while driving between appointments. Richard and...
Duration:00:21:41
Special Edition - in conversation with Dr Peter Sidebotham about the new Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel report
7/17/2020
In this special episode of the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with Dr Peter Sidebotham, who led the Child Safeguarding Practice Review Panel review of sudden unexpected death in infancy in families where children are considered at risk of significant harm, which was published this week.
Despite the huge reduction in the incidence over the last 20-30 years, sudden unexpected death in infancy...
Duration:00:26:44
The COVID-19 response in North Yorkshire - with Martin Kelly OBE
7/10/2020
In this episode of the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with Martin Kelly, OBE, Assistant Director for Children and Families at North Yorkshire County Council.
Martin discusses participating in a virtual inspection of their youth justice service, ensuring their strengths-based, relational approach to practice was maintained, even when face-to-face contact was more difficult, and what the...
Duration:00:18:41
Domestic abuse and COVID-19 - in conversation with Jo Silver, SafeLives
7/3/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care talks to Jo Silver, Director of Quality and Innovation at SafeLives, the UK-wide charity dedicated to ending domestic abuse, for everyone and for good.
Michael and Jo discuss how SafeLives utilised their networks to ensure the voices of victims and survivors of domestic abuse were heard and that their...
Duration:00:33:24
How Stockport's Children's Services are responding to COVID-19 - in conversation with Chris McLoughlin
6/26/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with Chris McLoughlin, Director of Children’s Services at Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council (@chrismcDCS). They discuss how Stockport has reacted to the challenges posed by COVID-19, creating an effective multi-agency response, taking stock of physical and emotional wellbeing, and what...
Duration:00:19:02
Care Experienced Children in Higher Education
6/23/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast.
You can read our report on Care-experienced Young People and Higher Education:
https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/care-experienced-young-people-and-higher-education/
Find out more about our joint call, in partnership with Transforming Access and Student Outcomes in Higher Education (TASO) for evidence and practice on programmes which aim to increase the progression to, and success in, higher education,...
Duration:00:35:56
How Social Work England is responding to COVID-19 - a conversation with Colum Conway, Social Work England
6/8/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with Colum Conway, Chief Executive of Social Work England.
They discuss how Social Work England has transformed to remote working in order to continue to fulfill its duties as a regulator. Colum also discusses how Social Work England is working to strengthen and replenish the workforce to...
Duration:00:27:48
Children and young People In Care During Covid - Lee Mauve Patron of Become
5/29/2020
Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast - COVID-19 special.
In this episode, Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care, is talking with LeeMauve Patron, Director of Services at Become, the national charity for children in care & young care leavers. They discuss how Become is assisting children and young people in care and young care leavers during this difficult time, as many struggle with the consequences of the lockdown,...
Duration:00:18:05