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

Principal Children and Families Social Worker network meeting Friday 29 March 2019

Welcome & minutes of last meeting Claudia Megele & Adam Birchall National Co-Chairs

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What Works Centre update Michael Sanders & Ewan King

What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care Principal Children and Families Social Worker Network Meeting Birmingham, 29th March 2019 Michael Sanders, Executive Director WWC Anna Bacchoo, Head of Practice WWC Ewan King, Chief Operating Officer, Social Care Institute for Excellence

What is the What Works Centre? ● We are an independent organisation ● Dedicated to collating, creating and translating the best and most useful evidence possible to help social workers to support children and families ○ Collating - finding the evidence that’s out there, reviewing it, and pulling it together in an accessible way ○ Creating - where there are gaps - or new innovations - working to ensure that high quality evaluation happens

What is the What Works Centre? Our principles for getting at What Works; ● Impact ● Nuance ● Usefulness ● Empowerment

What is the What Works Centre?

What are we up to?

What are we up to? ● Testing the impacts of devolving budgets to social workers ○ Working with Hillingdon, Darlington and Wigan ○ Working to support families at the edge of care ○ Working to reduce the need for care Testing placing Social ●

What are we up to? ● Happier Healthier Professionals ○ Social Work Turnover is 15%pa ○ We’re working with 25 authorities on research to reduce turnover ○ Reduce sickness ○ Bolster resilience ○ Help social workers to thrive ● Schwartz Rounds

What are we up to? ● Machine Learning ○ Trying to shine some light into a complex and sometimes contentious area ○ Working with 7 local authorities to test the accuracy and value of predictive analytics ○ We’ve commissioned a review of the ethics of their use ○ Carrying out deliberative discussions with the profession and others

What are we up to? ● New projects are starting all the time - we’re working on research projects with 47 local authorities so far. ● We want to work with the sector to work out what to do next ● We want to support innovation and good practice that’s coming out of the sector

Engagement so far ● 21 Pioneer Partner Authorities ● 6 Change Project Partners ● 32 local authorities visited ● Practitioner Panel ● CYP Panel ● Families and carers panel ● #iuseevidence Event ● 4500 twitter followers

What have we heard? ● You can’t simply ‘lift and shift’ ● Working with the sector to set the agenda and on research, increases relevance and usefulness ● It can be difficult to determine quality of evidence - you want a trusted source ● Good practice exists everywhere, not just in the Partners in Practice sites ● Lots of great practice happening, little evaluation.

Practice in Need of Evidence (PINE) ● Officially launched today! ● Evolution of our prototyping work with Pioneer Partners in 2018/19. ● Brings together a suite of products and services to support a journey to a robust evidence-base. ● Based on the principle that excellent practice is happening all over the country (not just in Outstanding or Good LAs). ● We are looking for promising practice that needs an evidence-base.

Practice in Need of Evidence (PINE) ● Our aim is to support a number of local authorities to be ready to work with WWC on RCTs in 2020 to produce the highest quality evidence about what works. ● We want to support promising practice, particularly where there is little or no evidence at present. ● We will support successful LAs to become generally more evidence-minded and provide tools and resources to enable self-evaluation. ● Where there is early indication of evidence that something works, we will take this forward to an

Practice in Need of Evidence (PINE) Selection criteria: ● Specific activity or way of working. ● Financially self-sustaining. ● Concrete measurable outcomes that relate to children and families. ● Innovative idea or something that’s been around for a long time. ● Not part of the Innovations Programme.

Practice in Need of Evidence (PINE) We would like to work with a broad range of practice areas. - What are your priority areas of practice? - Where are the gaps in evidence?

Refreshment Break

Principal Children and Families Social Worker Network Meeting 29 March 2019

This year so far…. • We published the appointment rules and the appointment rules consultation response on 31 January 2019 • We worked with the Department for Education and Department for Health and Social Care steering group, and the two Chief Social Workers to finalise drafts of rules and standards • We launched our brand on 19 February 2019 • We launched our consultation on 21 February 2019 – to end 1 May 2019 • We launched our recruitment for 7 regional leads and Head of Strategic Engagement

Consultation on rules and standards 1. Professional standards covering standards of proficiency (the skills and expertise that social workers are required to have), standards of performance, conduct and ethics (the way that social workers are expected to work) and standards for continuing professional training and development 2. Standards of education and training covering standards to be met by social work educational courses and training 3. Registration rules , including criteria for eligibility (including English language requirements), renewal and restoration, CPD requirement, registration procedures and registration fees 4. Education and training rules , including criteria for the approval of courses and the role of inspectors of courses 5. Fitness to practise rules, including standard of acceptance, case examiner decision making guidance, pre-hearing case management procedure and indicative sanctions guidance for hearing panels

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Timeline • 10 week consultation 21 February - 1 May 2019 • Consultation events in London, Plymouth, Salford, Newcastle, Birmingham and Sheffield • Specific consultation events for people with lived experience of social work • Online surveys https://socialworkengland.org.uk/rules-and-standards/ • Twitter Q&As that focus on a different aspect of the consultation, go to our Twitter page and use #SocialWorkEngland to ask your question • Wednesday 27 March, 12:00-13:00 | Jonathan Dillon, Executive Director, Fitness to Practise • Monday 8 April, 17:00-18:00 | Philip Hallam, Executive Director, Registration and Quality Assurance • Wednesday 17 April, 13:00-14:00 | Sarah Blackmore, Executive Director, Standards

When the consultation closes… • Post consultation analysis • Social Work England Board workshop mid May • Draft amendments to the rules and standards based on consultation responses and revised rules and standards • The outcomes of the consultation will then be put before the Secretary of State for review of rules and approval of standards • Following review and approval we will publish the consultation response, rules, standards and guidance on the Social Work England website

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