Miriam Antcliffe, Research in Practice Research and Development Officer, speaks to John-george and Darren who share their personal stories of accessing their care files as adults. In part one, they describe the emotional journey of accessing their care file as an adult.

Reflections On Accessing Care Records And Supporting Good Recording: Accessing Your Care Record

Miriam Antcliffe, Research in Practice Research and Development Officer, speaks to John-George and Darren who share their personal stories of accessing their care files as adults. Part two makes recommendations to practitioners about good recording.

Reflections On Accessing Care Records And Supporting Good Recording: Recommendations For Recording

This series of short audio pieces and associated reflective questions aim to provide insight into lived experience perspectives of adult social care practice and the development of care and support plans.

Co-production, communities and risk

Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice and Wayne Reid, BASW England’s Professional Officer, Social Worker and Anti-Racism Visionary discuss the key issues highlighted by Wayne in a presentation on promoting anti-racism in social work. Listen on our website: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/racism-intersectionality-privilege-power-fragility-and-allyship/

Racism, intersectionality, privilege, power, fragility and allyship

Dr Jessica Wild, from Research in Practice, speaks to Ali about her experiences as a woman parenting her children while experiencing domestic abuse from her partner, and about her involvement with children’s social care. In this first episode, Ali discusses being referred to children’s social care and pre-birth assessment. Listen on our website: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/change-project-dva/rethinking-children-s-social-care-responses-to-domestic-abuse-and-violence/episode-one-an-introduction-to-alis-story/

Rethinking children’s social care responses to domestic abuse and violence - Episode one

Dr Jessica Wild, from Research in Practice, speaks to Ali about her experiences as a woman parenting her children while experiencing domestic abuse from her partner, and about her involvement with children’s social care. In this second episode, Ali discusses what good social work can look like and ideas for new ways of working. Listen on our website: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/change-project-dva/rethinking-children-s-social-care-responses-to-domestic-abuse-and-violence/episode-two-the-complexities-of-being-in-an-abusive-relationship/#

Rethinking children’s social care responses to domestic abuse and violence - Episode two

Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice, talks to Jo Todd Chief Executive of Respect, Kyla Kirkpatrick Director of the Drive Partnership and Dr Olumide Adisa Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Abuse Research at the University of Suffolk about the evidence base around domestic violence and abuse, perpetration and the interface with children’s social care.

Listen on our website: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/the-evidence-base-around-domestic-violence-and-abuse/

The evidence base around domestic violence and abuse

Lizzie Hills, Practice Lead at Norfolk County Council, talks about Norfolk County Council’s approach to life story work and the importance of making sure that children’s life stories, and how they understand them, is at the centre of all direct work with them.

Listen on our website: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/ensuring-childrens-life-stories-are-at-the-centre-of-direct-work/

Podcasts

Ensuring children's life stories are at the centre of direct work

Hannah Scott talks to Amy*, Kahlil and Imogen from the Family Justice Young People’s Board (FJYPB) about their experiences of working with Childrens Services, the Family and Criminal courts. (*pseudonym used)

The Family Justice Young People’s Board (FJYPB) are a group of more than 70 children and young people aged between eight and 25 years old, who live across England and Wales. All members have either had direct experience of the family justice system or have an interest in children’s rights and the family courts. Their overall aim is to support the work of the Family Justice Board, which aims to deliver improvements to the family justice system so that it provides the best result for children who come into contact with it.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/young-people-s-experience-of-court-and-pre-proceedings/

Young people’s experience of court and pre-proceedings

Georgina Chetwynd speaks with Gerry Nosowska about her updates to the Good Assessment handbook. Written primarily for social care practitioners completing assessments under the Care Act 2014, the handbook provides detailed practice guidance to support practitioners explore and reflect on good assessment practice, the capabilities of a good assessor and the support that assessors need.

The Good Assessment Handbook

Laura Bracey from Research in Practice speaks to Matt Tattersley, Project Manager for the Caring Dads programme within Leeds City Council.

Matt reflects on the journey that Leeds City Council has been on to improve its support to fathers and his hopes for the future. He shares examples of positive practice with fathers, and advice for social workers looking to work more effectively.

This podcast is the first in a series of three podcasts about the journey that Leeds City Council is taking to develop work with men.

View the accompanying reflective questions: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/working-with-men-in-leeds-caring-dads/

Working with men in Leeds: Caring Dads

In this podcast, Research and Development Officers Claire Williams and Luciann Blake talk to Laura Pritchard-Jones and Tony Anyaegbu about interpreting and applying case law in practice.

The podcast explores how effective practice should be underpinned by good and up-to-date knowledge of relevant case law. The conversation contains messages relevant to practitioners working with children and families, young people and adults. The cases and pieces of legislation mentioned throughout are linked below.

View the accompanying reflective questions: www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/conten…-practice/

Using case law in social care practice

This podcast explores what discriminatory abuse is and considers official statistics and wider research findings. It discusses how we can recognise potential discriminatory abuse, how discriminatory abuse features in Safeguarding Adult Reviews and what this means for developing our practice.

View the accompanying reflective questions:https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/content-pages/podcasts/discriminatory-abuse-developing-practice-responses/

Discriminatory abuse - developing practice responses

In this podcast Meg Elizabeth, Keeley Howard and Evie Poingdestre, three members of the Young Researchers’ Advisory Panel (YRAP), talk about how young people’s participation in services and research can be protective at an individual level and for young people more widely.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/participation-as-protection/
View the model: https://www.beds.ac.uk/media/jqjk3bvc/participation-as-protective-poster-web-3000-72dpi.jpg

Participation as protection

In this podcast, Dr Kesia Reeve, a dedicated housing researcher, and Leanna Fairfax, a PhD student with lived experienced of homelessness and social care, explore these issues from a family’s perspective. They discuss some of the challenges families may face and how services can best support them.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/change-projects/families-and-homes-change-project/understanding-the-perspective-of-a-family/

Understanding the perspective of a family with lived experience: homelessness, housing & social care

Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice, explains what evidence-informed practice is, why it’s of particular relevance to the social care sector and what it means for practice and leadership.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/what-is-evidence-informed-practice/

What is evidence-informed practice?

Kate Metcalf from Social Work England talks about the role of reflection in learning, writing an effective CPD record, and upcoming projects.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/a-cpd-conversation-with-social-work-england-reflecting-on-learning/

A CPD conversation with Social Work England: Reflecting on learning

Laura Bracey from Research in Practice speaks to Aurio about his experience of working with the Journey project in Leeds, a project set up to support fathers from a Black, Asian and minoritised ethnic background. They are joined by Marcus, who leads the Journey project.  

In this podcast, Marcus discusses how he set up the Journey project and how he works to support fathers. Marcus and Aurio reflect on their own experience of working together, and on the importance of understanding someone’s cultural identity, listening and sharing emotions.  

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/children/content-pages/podcasts/working-with-men-in-leeds-journey-project/

Working with men in Leeds: Journey Project

How better use of Children’s information, data and voice can be used to improve the lives of children and families.

Making better use of children’s information, data and voice

Jeanette Sutton talks to Anna Severwright about co-production and the recent Research in Practice Evidence Review that was co-produced with Social Care Future, which outlines the changes that are needed to make life better and equal for those who draw on social care.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/adults/content-pages/podcasts/talking-about-co-production-and-evidence-with-social-care-future/

Talking about co-production and evidence with Social Care Future

This podcast highlights key messages from recent research exploring the identity needs of minoritised children and young people in care. The discussion focuses on the dynamic nature of identity and how practitioners can explore what ethnicity and religion means to children and young people.

Identity needs of minoritised children and young people in care

Claire Williams, a Research and Development Officer at Research in Practice delves into materials and resources on organisational resilience and wellbeing and how they can be used in practice.

View the accompanying reflective questions: https://www.researchinpractice.org.uk/all/content-pages/podcasts/organisational-resilience/

Organisational resilience

Maggie - Leader

Maggie - Practitioner

Maggie

Pra - Leader

Pra - Practitioner

Understanding how we can work alongside children, young people and families to develop approaches to information gathering and use.

How we can work with children, young people and families to make better use of data

Dez Holmes, Director of Research in Practice and Research in Practice for Adults talks to Professor Danielle Turney from the University of Bristol. They discuss grounded professional judgement, the work that Danielle has done internationally on the subject and  more.

This Podcast is the second in a series on the subject of risks, rights and the role of the state.

Risks, Rights and the Role of the State

Risks, rights and the role of the state: Grounded professional judgement

Tish Elliot, registered social worker and practice educator, introduces some of the theories that underpin a strengths-based approach and reflects on the art of having strengths-based conversations. As part of this episode, Lyn Romeo, Chief Social Worker for Adults, provides an overview of her Roundtable report: Strengths-based social work practice with adults. 

This Podcast is the first in a series to explore strengths-based conversations.

Strengths-based conversations: An introduction

Tish Elliot, registered social worker and practice educator, outlines the process of sourcing new information about an individual’s strengths and community assets. She considers the effect this may have on people accessing services and explores the common challenges to strengths-based working. As part of the episode, Mick Ward, Chief Officer of Transformation and Innovation at Leeds City Council provides a summary of asset-based community development and how this works in practice.
                                                                                                                                                                                            
This is the second in a series of Podcasts to explore the subject of strengths-based conversations.

Strengths-based conversations: Skills for effective communication

Tish Elliott, registered social worker and practice educator, reflects on the different models used to support practitioners, including Appreciative Inquiry and solution-focused brief therapy. She considers how they fit within a strengths perspective and suggestions for their use in strengths-based conversations with people accessing services and their carers.

This Podcast is the third in a series exploring strengths-based conversations.

Strengths-based conversations: Supporting good practice

Susannah Bowyer, Assistant Director at Research in Practice in conversation with Prof. Kate Morris of the University of Sheffield, and Prof. Brid Featherstone of the University of Huddersfield. 
In this podcast Brid and Kate talk about their powerful body of research and their radical vision for social work with children, young people and families around poverty, inequality and neglect.
Talking Points
•	The strong association between a family’s socio-economic circumstances and the chances that children in those families will experience child abuse and neglect.
•	Evidence from across the four nations of the UK that offer alternative approaches to working with families affected by poverty.
•	The complex interactions between deprivation and ethnicity.
•	How social work can engage with the community, and the co-production of approaches with people who have lived experiences.
•	How senior managers can apply messages from this body of research in their work.

Poverty aware practice with children and families

In this podcast Fidelma Hanrahan, Senior Research Officer at Research in Practice, speaks to Kirsten Asmussen, Head of What Works, Child Development at the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), about Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and the implications for public health and children’s social care.

Adverse Childhood Experiences: What they tell us and implications for social care

Claire Williams, Research in Practice Research and Development Officer, speaks to Clenton Farquharson. Clenton is Chair of Think Local Act Personal Partnership board, a Trustee of the race equality foundation, an Ambassador for disability rights and he has lived experience of social care services.

They talk about co-production and how the discussion around it is still quite theoretical. Clenton explains how it can work in organisations, and what it really means for people with lived experience of services and practitioners.

Working together, learning together: A lived experience guide to co-production

At Research in Practice, we bring together academic research, practice expertise and the experiences of people accessing services. We then apply this knowledge to develop a range of resources and learning opportunities, as well as delivering tailored services, expertise and training.

We work closely with professionals across the children, families and adult sectors to ensure our work is truly sector-led and responds to the most pressing issues.

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