Resources
Research In Practice
Research in Practice supports the children's sector to build capacity for evidence-informed practice, bringing evidence-informed practice to the heart of government consultations, policy initiatives and academic research.
Making Research Count
Making Research Count is a national collaborative research dissemination initiative, established by a consortium of universities (including the University of Bedfordshire) and developed by regional centres.
Trauma Informed Practice:
We are working with Professor David Shemmings to support our practitioners develop their understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of trauma. We have a series of webinars available on this link.
‘Childhood Trauma and the Brain’
By Eamon McCrory, Professor of Developmental Neuroscience and Psychopathology. Neuro Science explained with stories about children.
Access the resource
Safe Hands and Thinking Minds
Dr Karen Treisman
Safe Hands and Thinking Minds Associates draw on a range of interdisciplinary expertise, theoretical perspectives, and evidence bases to promote, solidify, and develop high standards in areas of:
- parenting
- trauma
- adversity (ACE's)
- attachment
- fostering
- adoption
- asylum-seeking & refugee young people
- culturally/adversity/trauma-informed.
Visit the Safe Hands and Thinking Minds website.
Signs of Safety
The Signs of Safety approach is a relationship-grounded, safety-organised approach to child protection practice, created by researching what works for professionals and families in building meaningful safety for vulnerable and at-risk children.
Visit the Signs of Safety knowledge bank
Contextual Safeguarding Network
The network promotes theory-informed practice and seeks to develop practice-informed research co-created with academics and practitioners. We seek to accelerate the learning from, piloting of, and contextual approaches to safeguarding by disseminating research findings and running in-person and online trainings and events.
Alcohol Awareness and Alcohol Assessment and Brief Advice (IBA):
Understanding the impact of parental alcohol use on children and families is particularly important now, as we know that alcohol sales have increased and many families are living under stressful conditions. The films below outline why it’s important to talk about alcohol with families and provides tools to frame those conversations.
Understanding the Impact of Alcohol on Families-Insightful Families Project (7 mins)
Introduction to Parental Alcohol and Brief Advice Training (40mins)
Haringey’s Insightful Families Service is also available to provide advice and take referrals where families need support with substance misuse.
Looking after your Mental Health - helpful tips and advice
This faculty works to foster a healthy work-life balance among the workforce and share programmes/interventions to encourage self-care and wellbeing strategies.
What is resilience?
It’s the ability to recover and bounce back from adversity and hardship, feeling stronger and able to cope even under testing times.
Read more
New statutory guidance for children social care
Working together to safeguard children 2023
This revision to the guidance focuses on strengthening multi-agency working across the whole system of help, support and protection for children and their families, keeping a child-centred approach while bringing a whole-family focus, and embedding strong, effective and consistent multi-agency child protection practice.
The update includes:
- principles for working with parents and carers that centre the importance of building positive, trusting and co-operative relationships to deliver tailored support to families
- expectations for multi-agency working
- new national multi-agency child protection standards that set out actions, considerations and behaviours for improved child protection practice and better outcomes for children
Read the summary of changes put together by the PCFSW (April 24)
The Children Social Care National Framework:
The National Framework brings together the purpose of local authority children’s social care, the principles by which children, young people and families should be supported, the enablers that should be in place so the system is effective, and the outcomes that should be achieved so that children and young people can grow up to thrive.
Read the executive summary.
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