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Transitional safeguarding in London Borough of Hackney: a case study
- Author:
- GRIFFITHS Raynor
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 34(1), 2022, pp.41-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
The article reflects upon work undertaken to date to build more robust safeguarding mechanisms for young people aged 16 -25 years old. Hackney is a diverse and vibrant London Borough, with an estimated population of 280,000 people, of which 48% are under the age of 29. In recognition of this and national work identifying the ‘gap’ in safeguarding provision for 16 − 25 year olds, the City and Hackney Safeguarding Adults Board, with the Community Safety Partnership and Children’s Partnership, set up a Task and Finish Group to address the challenge of Transitional Safeguarding. The article describes the processes adopted by the group to understand what the fundamental safeguarding issues are for young people living in Hackney. It presents key findings from the consultation and how these were subsequently used to influence developmental work regarding Transitional Safeguarding. Hackney was part of the Contextual Safeguarding Pilot and subsequently established a Context Intervention Unit. Influenced by the group’s work, it brings together skills and knowledge from both children’s and adults safeguarding services, to create a bespoke service for young people who may experience extra-familial abuse or exploitation. (Edited publisher abstract)
Preparing for adult life: safety planning in transition
- Authors:
- JOHNSON Amanda, AVERY Corinne
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 34(1), 2022, pp.51-59.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports on the development of a new transition service in Norfolk; ‘Preparing for Adult Life’ (PfAL), led by Adult Services (ASSD). It identifies the strategies that were used to develop effective partnership working across Children’s Services, Education and Health, including how shared understanding and learning from one another is being incorporated to manage risk and support for personalisation as part of promoting a transitional approach to safeguarding for individuals as they approach the transition to adulthood. Using the literature, the researchers examined why improved multi-agency working and understanding of roles and responsibilities is important as part of safety planning, particularly during transition to adulthood, and the benefits of an ASSD led strengths-based approach for the young person. The primary focus of this work is based on the principles of Making Safeguarding Personal to the young person; allowing opportunity to make unwise decisions, with consideration of the Mental Capacity Act 2005, and considering a risk assessed approach with the aim of achieving better outcomes for young people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Following the death of Ms A: a local authority response to transitional safeguarding
- Authors:
- WALLACE Martin, COCKER Christine
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 34(1), 2022, pp.61-69.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article discusses work done over several years in the London Borough of Havering (LBH) to develop and strengthen services for young people transitioning from Children’s Services to adulthood, care-experienced young people in particular. The impetus for this development work was a Safeguarding Adult Review (SAR) published in 2017 concerning a care-experienced young adult, Ms A, who was receiving Leaving Care services at the time of her death at the age of 20. Following a successful funding bid to the Department for Education, LBH made significant investment in transitions services, co-producing these with young adults themselves in conjunction with a work-support mental health charity MAC-UK. This work resulted in the creation of: The Cocoon, a new ‘one-stop shop’ onsite multi-agency service provision; and the Transitions Panel, a new multi-agency planning forum. This article describes the development of The Cocoon and the Transitions Panel, and summarises the impact of these developments. (Edited publisher abstract)
Transitional safeguarding: a strategic response
- Authors:
- WALKER-MCALLISTER Sian, COOPER Adi
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 34(1), 2022, pp.71-82.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This paper provides an overview of the new safeguarding governance arrangements introduced in Bath & NE Somerset (B&NES), outlining how a Transitional Safeguarding approach is being addressed. B&NES merged the governance arrangements for the Local Safeguarding Children’s Board (LSCB) with the Safeguarding Adults Board (SAB) and Community Safety Partnership (CSP). The primary driver for this was to create an all-encompassing life course approach to the governance of safeguarding in B&NES, through joined up leadership at a strategic level. The aim was to reduce duplication of effort from all safeguarding partners and to ensure that partners were able to prioritise the most effective approach to deliver better joined up services, particularly at the transition points across services, to reduce gaps in provision. Analysis and evaluation of this approach provides evidence that improved delivery of effective governance is beginning to have a positive impact on how services are delivered to support young people, particularly around how Transitional Safeguarding methods are used across Children’s and Adult Services to meet the needs of young people. (Edited publisher abstract)
Facilitating extrinsic motivation and autonomous support in advanced care planning: a case study
- Authors:
- HARDT Hyoseon Shim, LEE Othelia Eun-Kyoung
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 32(1), 2022, pp.129-134.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Advanced care planning (ACP) is one area in which the importance of self-determination is highlighted during palliative care. Each client in end-of-life care can either resist, partially adopt, or deeply internalize values, goals, or belief systems. Two cases of extrinsic regulation, namely, identification, and introjection, which social workers can encounter in hospice care are described. The significant roles for social workers in facilitating autonomous support in ACP are discussed. (Edited publisher abstract)
Complex and conscious. Case study of a change programme in a UK local authority adult care service through a complexity and psychoanalytical lens
- Author:
- MOORE Tanya
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice, 35(1), 2021, pp.39-50.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This paper offers a case study of a large UK local authority adult care department as it introduces a new practice model. The change programme is examined through a lens of complexity theory. Complexity offers a way of understanding constantly changing systems and uses concepts such as ‘feedback loops’ and recognition of ‘emergent’ behaviours to offer a means to anticipate patterns of change in otherwise unpredictable systems. In this study, complexity is found to offer a helpful understanding of behaviour across the complex adaptive system of a large organisation but it falls short at recognising the cause of behaviours that can be obstructive. The author suggests the use of psychoanalytic theory to acknowledge the emotion that might be the driver for resistance to change and notices how effectively the two theories applied together can bring rich understanding as well as strategic oversight to a complex social care system. This study provides a useful, theoretically informed insight into change management and leadership within a social work agency that is moving away from transactional practice and promoting creative, autonomous, relationship-based practice. The study advances understanding of how complexity and psychoanalytic theory can be used in tangent to support organisational change within social care. (Edited publisher abstract)
Using community-based participatory research strategies in age-friendly communities to solve mobility challenges
- Authors:
- DABELKO-SCHOENY Holly, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work, 63(5), 2020, pp.447-463.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
The number of older adults is steadily increasing in the United States and across the globe. Aging is linked to an increased risk of disability. Disabilities that limit one or more major life activities such as seeing, hearing, walking, and motor skills impact a person’s ability to drive a car. Low utilization of alternative transportation by older adults and people with disabilities may put them at risk for social isolation. Social isolation is associated with a variety of negative health outcomes. While communities are challenged to create available, acceptable, accessible, adaptable and affordable mobility options, there are widely held, inaccurate biases around older adults’ abilities to contribute to the development and improvement of alternative transportation options. Gerontological social workers are well-positioned to address this bias. This paper presents a case study of a large metropolitan county in the Midwest where community-based participatory research (CBPR) strategies were used to engage older residents to support the development of alternative transportation options supporting the tenets of environmental justice. (Edited publisher abstract)
Isolation in the midst of a pandemic: social work students rapidly respond to community and field work needs
- Authors:
- MORRIS Zachary A., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Social Work Education (The International Journal), 39(8), 2020, pp.1127-1136.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
In the midst of a pandemic, many social work students are currently displaced from their field education, while the needs of their communities are exacerbated. Due to stay-at-home orders, the risk of experiencing social isolation and loneliness, already a major social problem prior to the crisis, has increased, especially for older adults. Seeking to step up in the context of a public emergency, graduate social work students in the United States created a project called GiftsofGab.org, which is a volunteer call-based companion coordination project that connects social work students with those in need of social interaction. This paper provides a case study of this project and argue that this kind of student-initiated action learning project can provide a workable alternative field placement model in times of crisis and is consistent with the community practice mission of social work. (Edited publisher abstract)
Using the NIAAA brief alcohol screener in social work practice for selected prevention targeting youth
- Authors:
- TUBMAN Jonathan G., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Social Work Practice in the Addictions, 20(3), 2020, pp.222-229.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
This article discusses the use of brief screeners in social work practice to identity adolescents in need of selected interventions for alcohol and other drug use problems. Brief screeners can increase access to alcohol or other drug intervention services and promote the diffusion of evidence-based interventions to underserved communities when integrated in Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) initiatives. The two-item NIAAA Brief Alcohol Use Screener is discussed as a developmentally tailored assessment tool that can be integrated into SBIRT in social work practice to improve detection of early-stage alcohol problems among adolescents who lack routine access to preventative health care. The use of brief, empirically supported alcohol screeners in trainings for social work students and new professionals can enhance their preparation and competence to offer child and adolescent clients appropriate selected intervention options to reduce harms associated with underage alcohol use. (Publisher abstract)
Applying standardisation tools in social work practice from the perspectives of social workers, managers, and politicians: a Swedish case study
- Authors:
- SKILLMARK Mikael, OSCARSSON Lars
- Journal article citation:
- European Journal of Social Work, 23(2), 2020, pp.265-276.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article reports findings from a case study of the practical application of a standardisation tool in everyday social work practice. The example tool used herein is the Swedish version of the UK-based Integrated Children’s System, which in Sweden is known as Children’s Needs in Focus (Barns Behov i Centrum; BBIC). The study analyses group and individual interviews with social workers, managers and politicians using concepts from implementation research and the micro-sociological concept of accounts. The findings demonstrate how participants describe and explain their deviations from the BBIC manual and from the more informal intentions of the tool. Such deviations are conditioned by the fact that professionals often employ their own discretion in their work, which is necessarily inherent in human service occupations such as social work. Although the BBIC was initially well received, the professionals describe how that reception eventually turned to scepticism and a more critical stance toward the manual. This can be attributed to both absence of significant necessary implementation conditions and key organisational factors as well as a lack of compatibility between the tool’s construction and users’ needs and expectations. This article also discusses the general socio-technical and organisational implications of these findings. (Edited publisher abstract)