The overall aim of the project is for social work service practitioners to be better equipped to understand the perspectives of people who may be at risk of harm and to improve their participation in investigations, decision-making and meetings.
The aims will be achieved by establishing a national network of 4 locality teams, within local authority areas, to work on their own chosen issue and find ways in which it might be tackled through developing ‘tools’ and/or approaches. The project will run from 1st November 2012 to 29th April 2013 and involve two stages:
Stage One: Consolidation and synthesis of past projects with partners
- Local teams will be established by the local authorities with academic support
- Academics develop synthesis paper comprising literature review and summary of recent projects
- National Network Meeting (25 January 2013): to review current developments and for LA teams to identify a tool/approach they wish to design and pilot in their own area
Stage Two: Practitioner and service user joint resource development
- Local team activity to develop resources
- Academic support for local teams and facilitation of community of practice space (knowledge hub)
- National Network Meeting: to share resource development process and outcomes.
Project Outputs
- Project briefing paper
- Synthesis paper: reviewing literature and recent projects
- Draft resources and piloting strategy from each working group
- Event summary from each national network meeting
- Project website to detail process and resources: https://blogs.iriss.org.uk/asp/
- Community of practice space, knowledge hub