Children

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.

Examines a wide-range of materials on how community-based interventions have been effective in supporting young people's social and emotional wellbeing.

Explores the impact of parental substance misuse on children and identifies evidence around effective methods of intervention for social workers.

Identifies evidence around good practice approaches to investigating child sexual abuse that may minimise harm or distress to children and non-abusing caregivers.

The value of participation by service users in shaping and improving practice and services is well recognised in much existing guidance and practice, but less so in relation to contact with families of children referred on child protection grounds.

Gary Clapton, Senior Lecturer in Social Work at the University of Edinburgh spoke to Kerry Musselbrook from Iriss about what being a good father means to him, and tells us about the Iriss Insight (evidence summary) he wrote on good practice with fathers in children and fam