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Multi-agency collaboration in

safeguarding

Compass Approach

Achieving second order change

Relationships – a secure base for all

Responsibility

Integration – services and psychological

Workforce developmentTraining, clinical supervision, consultation, clinical attachments

Appropriate risk taking

Reflective practice and organisations

Therapeutic thinking - process vs content

Role and identity

“Unless teachers develop the practice of critical reflection, they stay trapped in unexamined judgments, interpretations, assumptions, and

expectations. Approaching teaching as a reflective practitioner

involves fusing personal beliefs and values into a professional identity” (Larrivee, 2000, p.293).

Exercise:

What professional experiences inform your decisions about risk?

What personal experiences inform your decisions about risk?

What are your family scripts about risk taking?

Where does your emotional containment come from?

What organisational beliefs influence your practice?

What would you fear most about a serious case review?

Responsibility

“the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for

something.”

Individual and collective – whose job is it anyway?

Attitudes to risk

Feeling overwhelmed – our attachment styles?

Organisational containment

Response ability

Responsive vs reactive

Shared problems

Responsibility contd………..The importance of mistakes - accountability

In the year following the death of Baby P there was a

25% increase in the number of children killed by a parent. Remained higher for each of the next three

years.

A tale of two foster carers

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Risks

Types of risk – organisational, patient, practitioner

Attitudes to risk

“Too pro family”

Whether or not I keep my children depends on which social worker / psychologist / judge etc I am allocated……

Please provide opinion as to whether the parents have the

capacity to form open and honest relationships with professionals?

What informs our decision making?

Safe uncertainty

Type 1 and type 2 errors

Creativity

Reflective practice

Reflective organisations

Culture of challenge

Flattened hierarchy

Group supervision

Genograms

Clinical attachments and live supervision

Disclosure and feedback

Either everyone learns or nobody does

Making decisions……….

IntuitionLogicEvidence baseAsking my managerSupervision

ExperienceRisk assessmentMeasuresLoss aversion……………….