Children

Jane Martin, Chief Social Work Officer at Dundee City Council reflects on her social work journey.

A project in Australia that has been successful at involving families as peer workers in early childhood intervention. 

An interview with Emma Scott, winner of the Bright Spark Award at the Scottish Social Services Awards 2018.

Explores the evidence around the impact of individual experiential therapies (e.g. animal assisted, play, arts) and EMDR, for young people who have experienced trauma.

Looks at evidence around methods for capturing the impact of social work interventions.

Summarises evidence relating to the effectiveness of women specific interventions in addressing complex needs and the role they may play as preventative strategies in children's services.

Explores the evidence around integrated assessment in children's services, including children's and families' experiences of the assessment process, good practice, electronic information systems, data protection, privacy and the potential impacts of surveillance.

The focus of this Insight is pre-birth child protection assessment and care planning, and more specifically, the lead social work role within this work.

Summarises evidence relating to participation frameworks for children and young people in social care, including examples of good practice as well as specific contexts, such as in child protection, and with BAME and disabled youth.