Using knowledge exchange to bring about culture change in children and families social work departments

利用知识交流带来儿童和家庭社会工作部门的文化变革

• 批准号: ES/K000764/1
• 负责人: Mark Smith
• 金额: $ 4.95万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2013
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2013 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FK000764%2F1
• 关键词: Using; knowledge; exchange; bring; about

Child protection systems across the English-speaking world have been subject to damning critique in recent decades, to the extent that some commentators conclude that they may be doing more harm than good. A recent UK government-sponsored review conducted by Professor Eileen Munro argues for fundamental change in child protection practice and culture. Specifically, Munro argues that 'Local authorities and their partners should start an ongoing process to review and redesign the ways in which child and family social work is delivered, drawing on evidence of effectiveness of helping methods where appropriate and supporting practice that can implement evidence based ways of working with children and families' (2011, p.13)' Munro identifies the need to 'help professionals move from a compliance culture to a learning culture' (2011, p.6). Munro's recommendation forms the central objective in this proposal: to help children and families social workers in two local authorities review and redesign their services in line with evidence of what is known to be effective and to do so in the context of a learning culture. The project partners include social work and knowledge exchange (KE) academics at the University of Edinburgh and key managers and practitioners in two neighbouring local authorities, The City of Edinburgh and East Lothian.The proposal builds upon a previous successful project, which involved academics and social work practitioners from six local authorities working together on small pieces of practitioner research around effective practice in working with involuntary social work service users, involuntary being understood as those whose contact with social work was mandated. The focus of three of these projects was on children and families social work. This new proposal takes the findings of this project forward, casting the spotlight across a wide spectrum of social work practice with children and families. Historically, social work agencies have invested in training events and initiatives in the hope that learning on these might be cascaded from participants into wider organisational structures. The evidence for this sort of transfer of learning is not strong. On the contrary, it is known that very little training activity results in positive changes to practice. One of the reasons for this is that training often occurs as a free-standing activity that is not clearly linked to organisational or practice objectives. Models of knowledge exchange, through recognising the prior knowledge, skills and values that practitioners bring to a subject, are considered to be more effective than traditional training initiatives in getting knowledge into practice. In this project we will utilise specific knowledge exchange activities, derived from the literature and shown to be effective in our previous project, to help bring about cultural change in the partner local authorities. Our proposal consists of three strands, a horizontal one that will operate across organisations to discuss key themes relating to the current discourse on child protection; a vertical strand, which will aim to support practitioners develop examples of what is known to be effective practice and a third strand, which will work with managers around effective learning transfer. Together, the various strands are in line with Nutley et al's (2007) organizational excellence model of knowledge exchange whereby organisations, working in partnership with universities, become the locus for local experimentation, evaluation and practice development.Our project will offer pointers and models about how cultural change in child protection might be brought about more widely. As such, it will be of interest to local authorities and to Government bodies across the UK and thus holds out the potential to evidence demonstrable social policy and practice benefits.

近几十年来，在英语世界中，整个英语世界的儿童保护系统一直受到该死的批评，以至于一些评论员得出结论，他们可能弊大于利。艾琳·蒙罗（Eileen Munro）教授最近进行的一项英国政府赞助的审查认为，儿童保护实践和文化的根本变化。具体而言，芒罗认为：“地方当局及其合作伙伴应启动一个持续的过程，以审查和重新设计儿童和家庭社会工作的方式，借助适当的帮助方法的有效性证据，并支持可以实施基于证据的实践与儿童和家庭合作的方式（2011年，第13页）” Munro确定了“帮助专业人员从合规文化转变为学习文化”（2011年，第6页）。芒罗的建议构成了该提案的核心目标：在两个地方当局的儿童和家庭中，审查了他们的社会工作者，并根据已知有效的证据并在学习文化的背景下重新设计其服务。该项目合作伙伴包括爱丁堡大学的社会工作和知识交流（KE）学者以及两个邻近地方当局的主要经理和从业人员，即爱丁堡市和东洛锡安。该提案建立在先前的成功项目上，该项目涉及学者和学术界和学术界。来自六个地方当局的社会工作从业人员共同研究了与非自愿社会工作服务使用者合作的有效实践的小型从业者研究，非自愿被理解为那些与社会工作接触的人。这三个项目的重点是儿童和家庭社会工作。这项新提议将该项目的调查结果提出了进展，使与儿童和家庭的各种社会工作实践相处。从历史上看，社会工作机构已经投资于培训活动和倡议，希望对这些活动的学习可能会从参与者级联进入更广泛的组织结构。这种学习转移的证据并不强烈。相反，众所周知，训练活动很少会导致练习的积极变化。这样做的原因之一是，培训通常是一项独立的活动，与组织或实践目标没有明确联系。通过认识从业者带给主题的先前知识，技能和价值观，知识交流的模型被认为比传统的培训计划更有效。在这个项目中，我们将利用特定的知识交流活动，这些活动源自文献，并证明在我们以前的项目中有效，以帮助带来合作伙伴地方当局的文化变革。我们的提议包括三个股，这是一个水平的提案，该股将在整个组织中运作，讨论与当前有关儿童保护论述有关的关键主题；垂直链将旨在支持从业者开发示例，说明已知有效实践和第三条链，这将与经理人合作，以有效的学习转移。共同，各个方面都与Nutley等人（2007年）的组织卓越知识交流模型一致，使组织与大学合作，成为当地实验，评估和实践开发的景点。如何更广泛地带来儿童保护的文化变革。因此，地方当局和英国各地的政府机构都将有意义，因此有可能证明可证明的社会政策和实践福利。

项目成果

Critical reflection workshops and knowledge exchange: findings from a S cottish project

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• DOI: 10.1111/cfs.12177
• 发表时间: 2014
• 期刊: Child & Family Social Work
• 影响因子: 1.7
• 作者: Cree V

The Role of Practitioner Research in Developing Cultures of Learning in Children and Families Social Work

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• DOI: 10.1080/09503153.2015.1074669
• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Practice
• 作者: MacRae R

The Emotional Labour of Austerity: How Social Workers Reflect and Work on Their Feelings towards Reducing Support to Needy Children and Families

• DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcx151
• 发表时间: 2018-10-01
• 期刊: BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIAL WORK
• 影响因子: 1.8
• 作者: Grootegoed, Ellen;Smith, Mark
• 通讯作者: Smith, Mark

Social Suffering: Changing Organisational Culture in Children and Families Social Work through Critical Reflection Groups-Insights from Bourdieu

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• DOI: 10.1093/bjsw/bcw087
• 发表时间: 2017
• 期刊: The British Journal of Social Work
• 作者: Smith M

Relationship boundaries in residential child care: connection and safety in group care relationships

寄宿儿童保育中的关系边界：团体保育关系中的联系和安全

• 发表时间: 2015
• 期刊: Research, Policy and Planning
• 作者: Coady, P