Talking Research in Children’s Social Care Podcast What Works For Children's Social Care

In this podcast, Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude, looks at our report into understanding residential care. With Eve Smyth, Quantitative Research Associate, she discusses what the findings tell us about who the children are living in these placements, as well as their journeys before and after entering the system.  

She also talks to Lisa Pascoe, Deputy Director of Regulation and Social Care Policy at Ofsted, to discuss the findings further, Ofsted’s role in residential care and what our findings could mean for the sector. 

Understanding residential care for children in care in England is part of a series of research we contributed to the recent Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

Contributors:

Presenter: Nimal Jude, Head of Practice Development

Interview with: 

Eve Smyth, Quantitative Research Associate at What Works for Children’s Social Care

Lisa Pascoe, Deputy Director, Regulation and Social Care Policy at Ofsted

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The full and summary report are available here: whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/understanding-residential-care-for-children-in-care-in-england/

In this episode of this series, Head of Practice Development, Nimal Jude, looks in more detail at our report into the commissioning of secure children’s home placements in England. She is joined by Eleanor Briggs, Director of Research, who helps explain the widely reported discrepancies between bed occupancies in secure children’s homes and demand, as well as the challenges faced in allocating suitable places.

Nimal also talks to Alice Roe, a lead researcher at Nuffield Family Justice Observatory  (NFJO) to find out what the findings from our report into secure children’s homes means for the sector, how it fits with NFJO’s own research and the next steps.

"Understanding residential care for children in care in England" is part of a series of research we contributed to the recent Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

Contributors:

Presenter: Nimal Jude, Head of Practice Development at What Works for Children's Social Care

Interviews with: 

Eleanor Briggs, Director of Policy at What Works for Children’s Social Care

Alice Roe, researcher at Nuffield Family Justice Observatory

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The full and summary report are available here: whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/commissioning-secure-childrens-home-placements-in-england/

In this episode of the podcast, Director of Practice Anna Bacchoo discusses the findings of our report into the support offered to children and their families on a Child in Need plan. Along with Director of Research, Aoife O'Higgins, they explore how the report added to the limited existing knowledge base to create a clearer picture, not only of who the children on these plans are, but how the plan is delivered and what it achieves.

"Understanding service provision for Children in Need in England" is part of a series of research we contributed to the recent Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

Contributors:

Presenter: Anna Bacchoo, Director of Practice

Interview with: Aoife O'Higgins, Director of Research at What Works for Children’s Social

Contact:

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The full and summary report are available here: whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/understanding-service-provision-for-children-in-need-in-england/

In this first episode of our new Independent Review of Children’s Social Care series, presenter Anna Bacchoo, Director of Practice, discusses our recent report into formal kinship care agreements in England. This report was part of a body of research we contributed for the Independent Review of Children’s Social Care.

In a conversation with Director of Research Aoife O’Higgins, they look at both kinship foster care whilst in care, and Special Guardianship Orders (SGO) granted to kin, and what our report revealed about the experiences of the children living in these arrangements.

Anna also speaks with former Policy and Practice advisor at the charity Kinship, Paul McGrath, to discuss what our findings mean to the sector and the next steps for those living in a kinship care arrangement.

Contributors:

Presenter: Anna Bacchoo

Interviews with: 

Aoife O'Higgins, Director of Research at What Works for Children’s Social Care 

Paul McGrath, former Policy and Practice advisor at the charity Kinship

Contact:

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The full and summary report are available here: whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/understanding-formal-kinship-care-arrangements-in-england

In this episode we discussed our pilot evaluation of Family Valued. This study was part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme and commissioned by the  Department for Education.

SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care.

Family Valued was originally developed by Leeds City Council as part of the Children’s Social Care Innovation Programme and we ran our pilot in Darlington. The initiative is a whole system approach to children’s safeguarding that involves training in Restorative Practice and establishing or expanding Family Group Conference (FGC) services in the local authority. It also entails carrying out a review of all existing local systems and then commissioning new restorative services to address any gaps in provision.

Contributors:

Presenter Nimal Jude, our Head of Practice Development, talks to the report’s research lead Hannah Collyer.



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You can also read the pilot report in full here: Family Valued

In this episode we’ll be discussing the recent pilot evaluation of No Wrong Door, part of the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme and commissioned by the  Department for Education.

SFPC aims to support local authorities to introduce one of three models of practice into their own area. These models hope to enable more children to stay in safe and stable family environments, so that fewer children need to be taken into care.

No Wrong Door was developed by North Yorkshire County Council. The initiative takes a multidisciplinary approach, with a team from several different sectors providing support to young people in or on the edge of care, through a range of services, outreach and accommodation options. The model was originally designed to support young people aged 12 - 25.

Our pilot evaluation was of No Wrong Door in Middlesbrough, who launched their Futures for Families, to support children aged 11 - 18 using the No Wrong Door model.

Contributors:

Presenter Nimal Jude, our Head of Practice Development, talks to the report’s research lead Hannah Collyer. 



Contact:

If you’d like to find out more about the latest research into children’s social care, sign up for our newsletter or have an idea for a future podcast., please get in touch:


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You can also read the pilot report in full here: No Wrong Door