{"id":3276,"date":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.provident-it.co.uk\/ipc\/evaluating-the-transformation-of-childrens-social-care-practice\/"},"modified":"2024-07-17T12:03:02","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T12:03:02","slug":"evaluating-the-transformation-of-childrens-social-care-practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.provident-it.co.uk\/ipc\/evaluating-the-transformation-of-childrens-social-care-practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Evaluating the transformation of children&#8217;s social care practice"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department for Education has published its second round report on its&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/childrens-social-care-innovation-programme-round-2-evaluation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Children\u2019s Social Care Innovation Programme<\/a>, and IPC has been heavily involved in the evaluation of the scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In Hampshire, the IPC evaluation explored how to transform children\u2019s social care practice through the lens of a successful \u2018Hampshire Approach\u2019, capturing the practice and outcome benefits of an ambitious whole system transformation programme led by Hampshire Children\u2019s Services.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2018The Hampshire Approach\u2019 used learning from previous innovations in children\u2019s social care to develop a highly relationship- and strengths-based model for social work practice, focused on helping families to make changes and become more resilient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Implementation of practice change paid particular attention to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><em>practice innovation<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 rethinking what happens at the interface between practitioners and families, and providing clear, consistent support, training, and supervision to achieve this;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>service innovation<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; rethinking all aspects of service provision and pathways into and through provision; and<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><em>system innovation<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 rethinking how organisations in a system operate, providing the right conditions for practice to flourish.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Key messages that emerged about effective implementation from the Hampshire experience included that it:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>takes time (up to 2-3 years to design, implement in a staged way and begin to embed consistently);<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>requires effective, consistent leadership across all levels of the organisation including modelling of the desired practice changes;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>is also only possible when practitioner training, practice tools, and processes, and also support for families, are consistently working towards rather than against the desired outcomes and ways of working.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outcome improvements in the region of 12-15% were observed in the context of an authority that, pre-transformation, was already considered \u2018good with outstanding features\u2019 (now rated \u2018outstanding\u2019 by Ofsted) suggesting that, with sufficient and well-directed investment, there is still room for improvement across many local authority children\u2019s services and not only those that are required to improve from a lower base.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read the IPC publication: https:\/\/ipc.brookes.ac.uk\/publications\/transforming-childrens-social-care-services-in-hampshire<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department for Education has published its second round report on its&nbsp;Children\u2019s Social Care Innovation Programme, and IPC has been heavily involved in the evaluation of the scheme. 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