The practice tools and approaches that are in place to support practitioners to undertake their role

Women talking around a table

We are supporting our practitioners to deliver the requirements of this practice framework through using the following tools and approaches:

  • Access to training centred around strength-based approaches to embed understanding and application of strength based practice.
  • Motivational interviewing techniques to develop a focus on strength-based conversations, so people can tell their story in their own words through the use of open questions to encourage reflection.
  • Complex Case and Risk Enablement Panels that support practitioners working with risk through, providing challenge, advice, recommendations and validation when faced with significant risk in order to take a positive approach to risk.
  • Developing Family Group Conferencing (FGC) or family-led meetings, to work with families to support them to come to their own solutions to challenging circumstances, based on the model of FGC often found in children’s social work.
  • Making Safeguarding Personal (MSP) with a key set of tools and resources to use in working with people at risk of abuse so that they achieve the outcomes they identify.