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Examining practice frameworks – mapping out the gains
- Authors:
- STANLEY Tony, BARON Samantha, ROBERTSON Peter
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 33(1), 2021, pp.21-35.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Most systems of child welfare promote some form of practice framework or practice approach, with inspectorates reinforcing the need for such. Yet the extent to which practice frameworks are sufficiently embedded and therefore driving good and improving practice is not clear or well understood. Practice frameworks can help social workers be more confident with articulating the core purpose of their work and help them to explain how they do it. Social workers and organisational leadership can then better articulate the core purpose, focus and offer of social work in social care settings along with encouraging a deepening practice knowledge and value base. In this paper, we explain practice frameworks and based on the available evidence synthesize the core elements to five core domains; we then present a conceptual and underpinning model (KcVETS), an underpinning practice framework that accommodates and promotes a range of values, standards and foundations for social work, and one that can help to drive and reinforce good and improving practice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Working with PREVENT: social work options for cases of ‘radicalisation risk’
- Authors:
- STANLEY Tony, GURU Surinder, GUPTA Anna
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 30(2), 2018, pp.131-146.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
‘Radicalisation risk’ and the associated practice and organisational responses to it are accepted, rather uncritically, as legitimate activity for statutory social workers. Yet, the policy backdrop driving much of this development has not been matched by practice debate or learning about how best to work with these cases. The 2015 PREVENT Duty mandates social workers and many other practitioners ‘to pay due regard’ to possible radicalisation concerns, without offering practical or ethical ways to do so. This paper attends to that gap, and brings together learning from a series of practitioner events and draws on strengths-based approaches to offer practical ways forward. By doing this, the paper offers practice guidance to this growing area of work. Occupational and professional paradigm differences emerged as an issue for the workers we talked to, and this is discussed. Moving beyond the dichotomous and divisive debate of the PREVENT Duty as ‘good or bad’, and about its legitimacy as a concern for social work, we take a pragmatic approach to show how social workers can operate ethically and co-operatively within it, importantly because presently they must do so. (Publisher abstract)
A practice framework for assessments at Tower Hamlets children's social care: building on the Munro review
- Authors:
- STANLEY Tony, MCGEE Paul, LINCOLN Helen
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 24(2), 2012, pp.239-250.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The Munro review of child protection explains the contemporary challenges in delivering statutory child protection services. It notes that complexity, uncertainty and emotional challenges inherent in social work are contemporary issues not resolved through new national guidance or more bureaucratic procedures, but rather at the local level. Tragedies in practice have tended to usher in more and more bureaucratic responses alongside an unabated blame culture for practitioners. There is no doubt that practice reforms are needed to address this; however these are neither straightforward nor easily achieved. Busy and overloaded offices of child welfare, managers and workers wedded to pre-existing frameworks, and an ever anxious political system and public can unwittingly act against the development and reforming of social work practice. This article describes one initiative, the new practice framework for assessments, developed and implemented in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets, as part of the Munro review.