How organisations support or hinder good practice: Part 2
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The key elements of a safety culture.
This film is part of the Working with uncertainty and risk in children's social care: Video learning resources.
Professor Eileen Munro looks at the key elements of a safety culture and how they can facilitate the minimisation of human error and improve practice.
Talking Points
This video looks at:
- The different aspects of a safety culture.
- The importance of reducing burnout to enable effective decision making.
Reflective questions
- How might your organisation begin to map and understand your safety culture?
- What steps could your organisation take to enable effective decision making?
Related resources
- Building a quality culture in child and family services: Strategic Briefing (2018).
- Recovery, work-life balance, wellbeing: how to switch off.
- Social Work Organisational Resilience Diagnostic.
- Supporting practitioner wellbeing: Practice Guide (2022).
- Supporting wellbeing remotely: Leaders' Briefing (2021).
- Embedding a trauma-informed approach to support staff wellbeing in children’s social care (2021).
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Child and family assessment | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | Confident analysis and decision-making | Purposeful and effective social work | Support effective decision-making | Designing a system to support effective practice
PCF - Critical reflection and analysis | Intervention and skills | Contexts and organisations