RECLAIMING SOCIAL WORK IN HACKNEY

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RECLAIMING SOCIAL WORK IN HACKNEY

• Presented by Steve Goodman
• Deputy Director
• Children Young People Services

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THE PROBLEM

• Social work is complex and difficult
• Training is poor
• Management is process heavy
• Press coverage
• Assessment Framework

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NEW PARADIGM

• Values
• Assessment and evaluation
• Risk Management
• Successfully applying methodologies that are
  evidence based

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METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH

• Use NICE, drawing on the Evidence, Support from
  the Start
• Evidence base random control trials
• Systemic Family Therapy approach
• Social Learning Theory/Behavioural Interventions

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CLEAR VISION

• Keeping children out of care
• Rapid intensive response when children enter care
  on Section 20
• Secure places in long term fostering wrap
  around therapeutic support.
• Maintain contact with family
• Create virtual school
• Avoid residential care

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NEW ARRANGEMENTS IN HACKNEY

• End of teams
• Creation of units
• Employment of therapists/clinical lens
• Investment in professional development

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THE SOCIAL WORK UNIT

• Consultant Social Worker
• Social Worker
• Childrens Practitioner
• Therapist
• Unit co-ordinator

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CONCLUSION

• Social work is on the precipice
• Setting up of independent practices will not
  work unless we learn lessons from research
• Social work in context of new Childrens
  Departments very much needed
• But we as a profession have a responsibility to
  take social workers to a new place