▶ 👇 The Key Principles outlined in the Parenting Through Adversity Practice Guide (0–10) are drawn from quantitative & qualitative research and from common features of effective parenting interventions: foundations.org.uk/practice-gui...
One in four children in England need social care services by 18, study reveals
A static graphic with text and icons. Practice Guide Parenting Through Adversity Parents of babies & children 0 to 10 Beside two illustrations (two figures surrounded by puzzle pieces and a single figure next to three ascending bars, the final bar ending in an arrow which points upwards) is copy which reads: Evidence-based guidance to support local leaders & practioners in children’s social care and health to transform the lives of families facing adversity.
📢 📑OUT NOW the Parenting Through Adversity Practice Guide (0–10)
Commissioned by the Department for Education, the Guide is the first major review of UK & international evidence on #ParentingSupport for families facing adversity: foundations.org.uk/practice-gui...
How can we use intervision in group supervision to improve practice?
Georgina Chetwynd explores the concept of this model in a new blog for #SocialWorkWeek2025. ow.ly/WKm050Vk2Oq
The health and wellbeing of mothers and infants is the foundation of healthy families and communities.
Explore open access Research in Practice resources to support healthy beginnings and #HopefulFutures for #WorldHealthDay. ow.ly/uJWa50VurQh
In this podcast, Steph Atalla, one of our Practice Leads from the Centre is joined by Lucy Holland from Surrey who shares her experiences of implementing and embedding #FamilySafeguarding from a Practice Lead and Service Manager's perspectives. youtu.be/H-15ZJ_SKSE
A helpful visual by @noreenblanluet.bsky.social and @copronetwales.bsky.social contrasting traditional public services — which deliver services to people — with co-production approaches that design solutions with them.
A significant milestone and life-changing opportunity to transform public services and how we address society’s most complex issues. Exciting times.
🎙️ Great to hear Louisa Mitchell MBE, Chief Executive of @allchilduk.bsky.social, speaking about the benefits of Social Outcomes Contracts (SOCs) in her latest podcast with Radical Reformers.
🚀 Listen to the full episode to learn more: bit.ly/4i6JHwc
Here’s a playlist of all the songs that people have nominated in nearly all the courses I’ve run for the last two years.
Feel free to listen, share and spread the happiness.
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The next two episodes of the #RadicalReformers podcast will be a bit different (and hopefully a treat for the public service reform nerds out there!). They will focus on "Relational practice" and "Place working". A couple of weeks ago, Andrew spent time with the leading relational practice experts from the UK and further afield at the PERU "Towards Relational Public services" conference in Manchester and recorded snippets with some of the keynote speakers and attendees. Relational practice is fast becoming the foundational element of all sensible public service reform thinking and in this episode you will hear from the best in the field including Rob Wilson, Kathy Evans, Emma Lord, Ron Charlton, Toby Lowe and Wendy Lansdown. The second public service reform special will focus on "Place working" and will unpack the findings of an LGA report the Mutual Ventures team and Re:State were commissioned to produce. Andrew will be joined by Dr Simon Kaye Prof Donna Hall and the LGA's Eve Roodhouse. Keep an eye out for this in a couple of weeks. The team Mutual Ventures believe relational practice and place working are two sides of the same coin and essential if we are to shift towards prevention, reduce demand/cost across the system and re-establish trust between public services and communities. The good news is real progress is being made on the policy front. Throughout both episodes, we reference the "test, learn and grow" principles produced by the Cabinet Office, the Spending Review policy announcement on "Community Help Partnerships" and the recent Public Service Reform Strategy from the Scottish
"A treat for public service reform nerds"
Two podcast episodes, this first one on 'relational practice' and one to come on 'place working'. Low-key but potentially radical approaches towards better outcomes at lower cost.
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How can we transform public service design and delivery by focusing on the power of human relationships?
We talked to @nick80.bsky.social and Osian Jones about the work being done at Camden Council to build a new relational approach to public services. www.ucl.ac.uk/policy-lab/n...
Differentiating between transactional and relational public service design www.linkedin.com/pulse/differ...
Mission-based government can’t succeed on metrics alone. It needs relationships. This is a brilliant case for centring relational practice in public service transformation: relationshipsproject.org/how-a-drive-...
I suspect there's a bit of a Whitehall tussle going on between those who want to make the existing system work better and more efficiently (the deliverologists) and those who realise that attempts to do this over the last forty years have all proved to be futile. We need a comprehensive approach to public service reform, setting out a whole system strategy for relational, place- based, community-powered public services. This needs to be backed by the Treasury and applied consistently across all departments.
A good and important read here on how to make real change happen in public services from someone who knows, Prof Donna Hall.
I'm sure the 'tussle' described here is real.
HT @joesarling.bsky.social @profdonnahall.bsky.social
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"We know that a service will be far more impactful and sustainable if it is rooted in the community, tailored to the specific needs of that place and its people."
Grace Duffy tells us how Bridges Outcomes Partnerships is improving lives through the power of partnership.
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🎧 In the latest episode of #RadicalReformers, @andrewlaird.bsky.social is joined by Scott Darraugh and Sophie Clarke to discuss challenges in children's care and encouraging young people to fulfil their potential: www.mutualventures.co.uk/post/radical...
