Principal Children and Families Social Worker network meeting 04 - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Principal Children and Families Social Worker network meeting

04 September 2019

Welcome & minutes of last meeting

Claudia Megele & Carol Sibley National Chair and Vice Chair

Child and Family PSW Network Meeting Chief Social Worker/DfE update

September 2019

Isabelle Trowler Chief Social Worker for England Children & Families

DfE policy and programme updates: April – September 2019

• New Secretary of State: The Rt Hon Gavin Williamson CBE MP was appointed

Secretary of State for Education on 24 July 2019

• New Ministers appointed in the Department for Education
• Spending Review: For 2020-21, the Government will be focussed on providing

early certainty and stability though a fast-tracked Spending Round ahead of a full Spending Review next year

• Funding announcement: For 2020-21, LAs will have access to £1bn additional

funding for social care services. This can be used flexibly by local authorities to deliver both adults and children's social care. This is on top of the existing £410m grant in 2019-20 for both adult and children’s social care, which will also continue

• Local Authority funding: The Government is working closely with local

authorities and the wider sector to develop a thorough understanding of children’s services’ costs and pressures (Review of Relative Needs and Resources)

Practitioners updates – Practice, support for families and programmes with LAs

Nuffield Family Justice Observatory ‘Review of Special Guardianship’ published in August 2019

The review calls for a number of changes, including:

• Skills and knowledge of children’s social workers in family placement must be prioritised
• An increased focus on working with family members who might become long-term carers for the

child before care proceedings commence and using Family Group Conferences

• Ensuring that any prospective special guardian has direct experience of caring for the child before

making a Special Guardianship Order

• Ensuring that support services are available locally
• Statutory minimum level of preparation and training for prospective special guardians
• Further research on young peoples’ views and experiences of special guardianship

NAAS updates and next steps

• Second phase of delivery with representation from each regional area
• 56 local authorities and Trusts are onboard
• Feedback has been positive
• Almost 600 social workers have taken the assessment with over 80% of these achieving

accreditation

• Almost 20 PSWs have taken the assessment via the PSW network route, with two more dates

scheduled for October

Social Work England

• SWE published a set of professional standards in July

Supporting Families

• Launched the Supporting Families: Investing in Practice programme in May
• £15 million provided to test innovation projects to help keep families together
• A proportion of the £15m to fund the creation or extension of 15 Family Drug and Alcohol Courts,

and support 24 local authorities to introduce Family Group Conferencing at pre-proceedings

• Applications from LAs for the Mockingbird Family model are currently begin assessed

The evidence base

What Works Centre Updates

• WWCSC is engaging with 112 local authorities and working in partnership with 78
• Early findings from research project testing different models of social workers in

schools - positive experiences so far

• Testing Schwartz Rounds as a way of bringing people together, to share stories

about social work and themselves, and to listen to others doing the same

• New pilot project devolving budgets to social workers to allow them to find creative

solutions to family problems

• Practice in Need of Evidence (PINE) programme – working with social care
• rganizations to create evidence about what is already working in practise
• 8 partnerships announced in July

National Safeguarding Panel

Our first year of operation July 2018 – June 2019

• The Panel decides whether to commission national reviews of child safeguarding
• cases. Decisions are based on identifying improvements from cases which are

complex or of national importance.

• The Panel will be responsible for supervising reviews it commissions and timely

progress is made.

• The Panel has its own statutory powers, independent of Government and can make

its own decisions.

Our first year of operation: Serious Incident Notifications: numbers and ages of children

Serious incident notifications by age

• Highest proportion of notifications

(32.4%) relate to children under age 1

• Age 6 to 10 under-represented in

comparison to other relevant age groups (7.2%)

Serious incident notifications by gender

• Highest proportion of notifications

relate to males (53%); females almost 10pp lower

Serious Incident Notifications (SIN): placement type and ethnicity

Ethnicity % Other Asian 1% Other Black 1% Other Ethnicity 2% Other Mixed 2% Other White 5% Brit-Bangladeshi 1% Brit-Chinese 0% Brit-Indian 1% Brit-Pakistani 2% Brit-African 4% Brit-Caribbean 3% Mixed Asian White 1% Mixed African White 2% Mixed Caribbean White 2% Not declared 6% White British 63% White Irish 0% Unknown 4%

Serious Incident Notifications: on a CPP plan

Serious incident notifications where a child was on a child protection plan

• The highest proportion of

notifications (45%) stated that the child had not been on a child protection plan

Our first national review: adolescents in need of state protection from criminal exploitation

• We have seen a growing number of serious incidents involving adolescents who

have died or been seriously harmed as a result of criminal exploitation.

• Our first national review is exploring if adolescents in need of State protection from

criminal exploitation get the help they need when they need it.

Review Question: Do adolescents in need of State protection from criminal exploitation get the help they need, when they need it? How can the services designed to keep adolescents safe from criminal exploitation, and the way those services work together, be improved to prevent further harm?

Spending review 2020 and beyond: what’s next?

From DfE tracking of Ofsted outcomes

What’s next?

• Where should DfE be focusing its energy in terms of improving children’s

social care?

• What should we do next?
• What do you think the governments role should be moving forward?

Break

A National Project on Social Work Leadership: New Models, Methods and Projects

Dr Jason Schaub @JasonHSchaub Lecturer in Social Work - University of Birmingham

Outline

 Why me?  Why you?  Why here?  Why this topic?  What is missing?

Why me?

 Developed a new Centre for Health & Social

Care Leadership

 This raised the difference / disparity in

discussions about leadership in health professions and social work

 Developed project – Leadership in Social Work

Why this Topic?

 Even with many leadership frameworks available

there remains an opportunity to strengthen what is understood about social work leadership.

 Social workers often feel disempowered and

anxious in practice, and most do not recognise themselves as leaders or feel confident to lead.

 There can be ambivalence around leadership in

frontline practice with pervasive issues of fear and blame that erect psychological barriers for practitioners.

UoB’s Leadership in SW Project

1. Working Paper ‘Leadership in Social Work (and can it learn from clinical healthcare?)’ 2. Led to roundtable with senior SW leaders (Chief SWer; PSW; ADASS; SWE, etc) 3. Further publications – blog, conceptual article 4. Funded PhD studentship examining SW leadership

Leadership & Social Work

 Leadership in social work is poorly defined  However, the importance of effective

leadership has been highlighted by a range of scholars and reports

 The context of contemporary social work can

be understood as inhibiting the development

• f confident and effective leadership

 Limited attention to leadership in social work

education

Context of Social Work

 SW is a varied and complicated profession  Context is often described as perpetually

changing

Contextual Challenges

 Working in a politically-led organisation  Effect of inspections and SCRs on leadership  Recruitment and retention issues  Budget reductions with increased demands

Clinical Leadership

 Clinicians (and in particular doctors and

nurses) have had central influence on NHS since 1948

 Numerous policy and professional initiatives

to encourage / strengthen formal and informal clinical leadership

 Despite some progress, clinical leadership

remains patchy and formal roles can extremely challenging

What is Missing?

 Definition of SW Leadership  Leadership knowledge

– practical, – conceptual – research (empirical)

 Understanding what social work-specific

leadership looks like

 Leadership in social work is poorly defined

with no consistent model or definition used in the UK and wider.

 Knowledge base is mostly conceptual and

lacks a robust empirical basis

 SW Education infrequently teaches

leadership skills to SWers

UoB Research to address these gaps

 Planned studies:

– PSW networks (C & A) ‘PSW perceptions

• f leadership’

– UK-wide 4 nation comparative study

 Evaluations

– Social worker of the year award – Council with a request for evaluating their leadership approach

Social Work-Unique Leadership

 Distinct aspects of social work leadership are

its values, recognition of the emotional labour involved, and focus on helping to make changes in peoples’ lives.

 SW has a strength to enact leadership using

partnership and co-production. – Strengths-based perspectives are helpful for social work when engage with leadership.

Social Work-Unique Leadership

 Social work leadership should be generated from

the ‘bottom up’ around common values.

 Placing leadership at the forefront may be seen

as creating challenge to principles of equality.

 It could be fruitful to link the quality of leadership

to outcomes for service users.

 Social workers should recognise they engage

dynamically with complex systemic issues as a form of leadership.

 In social work leadership, power should be

shared to ensure that communities and related organisations have opportunity to engage in leadership.

 Some relevant models are participatory or

distributed leadership, which include ideas of empowerment and egalitarianism

 Support for practitioners to lead from their

• wn practice – consider leadership

models/knowledge from other areas, with a need for contextualising these to social work

Social work leadership: a definition

Social work leadership: The use of professional credibility, competence and connections to positively influence others in response to the interests and aspirations of people and families. Achieved through coproduction with communities, collaboration with other professionals, and constructive conflict of injustice and inequality, it can be demonstrated through formal roles and informal encouragement of colleagues.

A cycle of missing leadership

Learning for Social Work?

 Sustained investment required across the life

course of professional careers

 Realism regarding impact whilst recognising

negative effects of poor leadership

 Leadership tensions between professions can

be destructive (and with managers)

 Professional leadership can drown out the

voices of people and communities

Engage with the project

 Contact the Project Team  Publications:

– Does social work have a problem with leadership? – Working paper: Leadership in Social Work (and can it learn from clinical healthcare?)

Update on PSDP for the PCFSW Network

Dez Holmes and Alison Domakin

Our Objectives

• Provide an update on

PSDP course delivery and the PSDP Resources and Tools

• pen access website
• Share our learning and

feedback from practice supervisors with you

• Get your ideas and

feedback about how we can help you to support practice supervisors in role

• Talk to you about how

might engage senior leaders to share key messages and learning from PSDP with them.

Update on delivery

Wave 1

• Wave 1 ran from

October 2018 to September 2019

• 24 cohorts

Wave 2

• Wave 2 runs from Sept

2019 to March 2020

• 27 cohorts including 5

bespoke.

Bespoke

• Bespoke cohorts are

running from March 2019 to January 2020 and aim to reach approximately 120 participants

Key themes PSDP

PSDP Feedback

PSDP Feedback: organisational support

• This is the hard bit, always!
• The system must adapt to accommodate new knowledge and skills
• PSWs are essential to enabling participants to embed and apply their

learning

• That’s why we are doing more to help you, and senior managers to

maximise ‘training transfer’

Making the most of the PSDP

• Making the Most out of PSDP Guide

http://psdp.rip.org.uk/assets/downloads/Making_the_Most_

• f_the_PSDP_Information_for_Organisations_with_hyperlink

s.pdf

• Blogs
• https://www.rip.org.uk/news-and-views/blog/place,-space-

and-time-reflections-on-the-bespoke-practice-supervisor- development-programme/

• https://www.rip.org.uk/news-and-views/blog/be-more-

penguin/

• https://www.rip.org.uk/news-and-views/blog/reflective-
• ne-to-one-development-sessions/

Helping you sustain impact

• Resources and Tools for Practice Supervisors
• An open access online repository which contains

information, tools and resources available to all Practice Supervisors in child and family social work.

• Hosted on a microsite developed by RiP, available from

Autumn 2019

• Maintained for 2 years till Sep 2021
• Develop a Community of Practice of ideas about using the

microsite and being a Practice Supervisor via twitter #PSDP .

Guiding Principles

• Reflects the key themes of the PSDP and Practice Supervisor experience

and learning needs

• Easy to navigate and quick to use
• Includes a range of flexible learning resources
• to inform PS- to use in supervision
• to discuss with team
• All sections can be completed in order or accessed as stand alone

content

• Content informed by sector leaders, practice supervisors, PSWs and

academic colleagues.

• Does not subscribe to any one model- but does include systemic models

and approaches which are influential.

Resources and Tools for Practice Supervisors

1.Your journey to being a Practice Supervisor 2.Understanding the Lived Experience of children and Families 3.Emotions, Relationships and Resilience in Child and Family Social Work 4.Talking about Practice in Supervision 5.Developing a Culture of Excellent Social Work Practice 6.Maximising your Impact as a Practice Supervisor

Each section offers

• Strategic Briefing for Senior Managers/

Leaders

• Webinar
• Knowledge Briefing for Practice Supervisors
• Podcasts and Talking Heads
• Learning Tools with ideas about how these

can be used – e.g. frameworks and models to try out in supervision (with ideas about how to use them); self-audit tools for Practice Supervisors

Find out more

• Find out more on our website

http://psdp.rip.org.uk/

• Contact us on PSDPadmin@rip.org.uk or call 01803

847200

We want to do more to share learning…

• Sharing key themes and feedback regionally with senior

leaders about-

• What Practice Supervisors have told us they need

from their organisations

• What we have learnt from delivering the

programme

• Your ideas about what you need to maximise the

impact

• What is the best way of influencing the practice system

to support Practice Supervisors to be effective in role?

• What can we do to help you?

Lunch

Commander Ivan Balhatchet National Police Lead for Honour-Based Abuse: Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation

4th September 2019

PSW MEETING An overview of the police’s position in tackling Honour-Based Abuse: Forced Marriage and Female Genital Mutilation

Aims

• an overview of the policing approach in tackling HBA: FM & FGM;
• The need for greater Social Work cooperation;
• Questions?

The UK Government & Policing Structure

Home Office National Oversight Sub-group on HBV (Chaired by Minister) VPP Board CC Simon Bailey NPCC Lead for HBA, FM & FGM CMDR Ivan Balhatchet (42) Police Force Leads HBA, FM & FGM National Working Group HBA, FM & FGM With 9 Regional Police Lead

Home Office NPCC

Home Secretary Home Office HBV Enforcement Meeting Home Office FGM Stakeholder Group Home Office FGM Unit Home Office/Foreign & Commonwealth Office Forced Marriage Partnership Board Home Office/Foreign & Commonwealth Office Forced Marriage Unit National Crime Operations Coordination Committee

Structure & Plans

Regional SPOC details for England & Wales National Delivery Plan 2018-2021 & National Vulnerability Action Plan 2018-2021

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Convictions for FM & FGM

The need for closer cooperation with Social Workers to safeguard victims from international crime?

Questions?

Ivan.R.Balhatchet@met.pnn.police.uk

Identifying variation in demand and outcomes

Presentation to the Principal Social Workers network meeting (September 2019) Sarah Parsons Assistant Director

The Public Law Applications to Orders (PLATO) Tool

Outputs of care proceedings: national data

9.0 9.7 9.2 9.7 11.0 12.5 12.1 11.4 13.5 15.2 16.5 16.4 23.2 21.9 19.3 24.3 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Care Applications per 10,000 Children (Liverpool LA v. National Average)

National Liverpool

9.0 9.7 9.2 9.7 11.0 12.5 12.1 11.4 14.9 14.5 16.0 14.2 13.8 14.4 17.5 16.1 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Care Applications per 10,000 Children (Manchester LA v. National Average)

National Manchester

9.0 9.7 9.2 9.7 11.0 12.5 12.1 11.4 6.3 6.7 6.2 11.7 14.9 14.5 14.3 9.9 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19

Care Applications per 10,000 Children (Northamptonshire LA v. National Average)

National Northamptonshire

* Excludes any LAs showing at 0% for the period

Top 5 Most Prevalent LAs Bottom 5 Most Prevalent LAs

73.1% 72.0% 60.0% 58.3% 57.7% London-Enfield London-Bromley North Tyneside London-Harrow Brighton and Hove

% Subjects on Care Applications with a SGO Output

2.3% 2.7% 3.4% 3.6% 4.0% Stoke-on-Trent Plymouth Blackpool Wirral Leicestershire

% Subjects on Care Applications with a Supervision Output

71.4% 50.0% 50.0% 50.0% 47.4% London-Merton Windsor & Maidenhead London-Richmond London-Havering London-Brent

% Subjects on Care Applications with a Supervision Output

2.7% 4.0% 5.0% 5.5% 6.1% Blackburn Cheshire West & Chester Knowsley Wakefield Northamptonshire

% Subjects on Care Applications with a SGO Output

0.0% 10.0% 20.0% 30.0% 40.0% 50.0% 60.0% 70.0% 80.0% 90.0% 100.0% Barking & Dagenham Barnet Bexley Brent Bromley Camden Croydon Ealing Enfield Greenwich Hackney Hammersmith & Fulham Haringey Harrow Havering Hillingdon Hounslow Islington Kensington & Chelsea Kingston-upon-Thames Lewisham Merton Newham Redbridge Richmond Southwark Sutton Tower Hamlets Waltham Forest Wandsworth Westminster Lambeth

% Care (s31) Applications with Short Notice Hearing – London LA SP1

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Jigna Patel, 21/08/2019

SP1

Sarah Parsons, 23/08/2019

• 15%
• 10%
• 5%

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Total Public Law Case Demand Growth

2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

• 20%
• 10%

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar

Total Private Law Case Demand Growth

2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

London Midlands North East North West South East South West National Average % Private law cases with s7 reports by Circuit

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%

Central London East London West London National Average

% Private law cases with s7 reports by London DFJ

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% 40%

Bournemouth and Dorset Bristol (A, NS and G) Devon Portsmouth (Hampshire and IOW) Swindon Taunton Truro National Average

% Private law cases with s7 reports by South West DFJ

Break

PSW project updates and actions

Training

4 specialist workshops on communication skills for practice leadership for Principal Social Workers. Two will focus on writing for the media and this training will be delivered by journalists who have specialist knowledge of the social care sector. Two will focus on being broadcast ready for camera and radio. Aim to support PSWs with their leadership communication skills.

Outputs: showcase C&F PSW role and output.

Leadership in Communication Training

Leadership in Communication for Principal Social Workers: Writing for the Media 20 January 2020 (Hertfordshire) and 27 February 2020 (Doncaster) Communication in Practice Leadership: Understanding and responding to media and broadcasting’ sounds good. 5 Dec. 2019 (Tower Hamlets) and March 2020 (Camden).

Leadership in Communication Training

3 Videos Should this take place during a network meeting, after a network meeting on the day of the training. On a separate day. Suggestions for the focus of the videos. PSWs who would like to take part. Podcast This will need to be recorded separately. 2 volunteers to take part. Publications From Dec. 2019 to March 2020

Outputs: Call to PSWs to take part

• Plans are underway for an extensive

programme of CPD opportunities exclusively for PCFSWs in 2020

• The full programme will be launched by the

end of 2019

• Watch out for further details in the next PSW

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Exciting news!

A package of CPD and support for PCFSWS as leaders:

• A national event in April
• One day leadership workshops in May – accessible to all

PCFSWs in 4 locations across England

• Half-day regional workshops to support the setting up of

self-facilitated action learning sets for PSWs

Learning and Development offer for 2020

A programme of special interest workshops / webinars / publications on the topics of

• Non-accidental injury and parental capacity to

change

• Safe sleeping for babies in the context of child

protection

• Criminal exploitation and young people
• Coercive control
• Emerging evidence base for effective practice

Learning and Development offer for 2020

Regional updates

@skillsforcare www.skillsforcare.org.uk/psw Register for the next meeting in December

https://events.skillsforcare.org.uk/child_and_family_psw_december2019

Keep in touch 

PSWnetworks@skillsforcare.org.uk