Transforming local government care and support

Consultancy support on transforming local care and support systems.

Issue 03 Strengthening Families Journal

Part of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children (SFPC)

This issue is about working with families to protect children

Five Attributes of Effective Leadership within the SFPC Programme

Part of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children (SFPC)

Leadership has a huge influence on the successful implementation of any innovation. This learning report describes five attributes of effective leadership, which were gathered through interviews with leaders in local authorities that are currently successfully implementing with fidelity one of the three innovations: No Wrong Door, Family Safeguarding or Family Valued. The implementation of these innovations in these adopting authorities will be challenged as the leaders that introduced these innovations move on to new roles in their careers. The content described in this report aims to answer the following three key questions: What are the attributes of leadership, and the contexts for leadership, most associated with successful implementation of Family Safeguarding, Family Valued, No Wrong Door?; How can we best support local authorities faced with a change of leaders in key roles?; How can we best support existing leaders with tools for self-reflection and coaching? This review has found five key attributes of successful SFPC leadership, which are: values driven leadership; leadership that changes how decisions are made in the interests of families; leadership that changes practice and culture; leadership that creates successful partnerships; leadership that secures buy in from corporate leaders and politicians.

Principles for No Wrong Door

Part of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children (SFPC)

No Wrong Door has a set of key principles, ‘Distinguishers, Non-negotiables and Provocations’ which all underpin an innovative multidisciplinary staffing team, model and approach.

Issue 02 Strengthening Families Journal

Part of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children (SFPC)

This issue of the Strengthening Families Learning Journal looks at how the three innovations are changing the way practitioners in the children’s social care workforce do their work and the conditions in which they are working.

Issue 01 Strengthening Families Journal

Part of Strengthening Families, Protecting Children (SFPC)

This is the first issue of Strengthening Families – the quarterly journal for people working in children’s social care, dedicated to capturing learning from the Strengthening Families Protecting Children (SFPC) programme.

Asset-based area 2.0 (SCIN)

Part of Social Care Innovation Network

Updated version of the asset-based area model, self-assessment tool from the Social Care Innovation Network.

Commissioning for a better future: useful resources. Social Care Innovation Network, Phase II

Part of Social Care Innovation Network

Research, resources and key trends to commission better services from the Social Care Innovation Network.

Scaling innovation in social care

Part of Social Care Innovation Network

SCIE undertook a rapid pragmatic literature review of publications since 2015 to provide a baseline understanding of the evidence on scaling innovation in adult social care.

Webinar recording: Innovation network (June 2020)

Part of Social Care Innovation Network

This webinar, recorded on 9 June 2020, looked at at phase II of the work of the new Social Care Innovation Network.