Appreciative Inquiry in child protection - identifying and promoting good practice and creating a learning culture: Practice Tool (2014)
A great deal of structural change and redevelopment in children’s services is prompted by ‘what goes wrong’. Mirroring child protection procedures, action for change is often precipitated by ‘trigger incidents’. Serious Case Reviews (SCRs), Ofsted judgements of inadequacy and high profile child deaths trigger senior leadership changes, service restructure and national policy enquiries (The Victoria Climbié Inquiry, 2003; The Protection of Children in England, 2009).
While these imperatives continue to drive service development, there is increasing interest in learning from what works well in local government – a shift from ‘learning from mistakes’ to one where the focus is on ‘looking toward what works and finding ways to do more of that’ (Hammond, 1996).
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Lead and govern excellent practice | Creating a context for excellent practice | Designing a system to support effective practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Support effective decision-making | Quality assurance and improvement | Promote and govern excellent practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Confident analysis and decision-making | Emotionally intelligent practice supervision | Performance management and improvement | Relationships and effective direct work | Abuse and neglect of children | Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | The role of supervision | Organisational context
PCF - Professionalism | Critical reflection and analysis | Intervention and skills | Contexts and organisations | Professional leadership
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