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Sarah PiggottBusiness Improvement and Development Team Manager
Staffordshire County Council
My Journey My VoicePractitioner Engagement Toolkit
What did Staffordshire want to achieve?
• Capturing the views and experiences of children and young people on a child protection plan
– Identified by our own internal auditing process– Implementing Professor Munro recommendations of getting back to social
work
• Improving the quality of practice – Social Worker time spent with the child – direct work
• Improving outcomes for the child– Decisions and recommendations made at child protection conference
• Improve Current/Future Services
The Process:
• A Working Group – Social Work Team Managers, Independent Chairs, Children’s Voice Project to scope requirements –– Age – Format– process
• Pilot in three Safeguarding Units with children under 10years– feedback was positive from social workers and children– Changed the language throughout the toolkits
• Launched across all of the 18 SSUs - April 2012
• Reviewing October 2013.
My Journey My Voice Toolkit• Developed to cover the child’s journey• Currently 1-8 tools included
– Keeping me safe– All About me– What I would like my social worker do for me– What About me?– ‘Three Houses’– ‘Three Islands’– What About Me+– My Journey Progress
Colourful, use drawing and stickers, personalised packs for the child to keep, form part of the social worker report to conference
Feedback to date
• 6 month review• Experiences of the Child audit – increased evidence of
the voice of the child when compared to last year’s audit• Children / Young People / Parent
‘love the stickers and the colours..’Young Boy was sad/worried about his Dad in Afghanistan so Mum helped to reassure’
• Social Workers/Team Managers –‘Younger children have responded very positively to the stickers and being able to personalise their folders’
‘children engage well with the materials’
‘a marked improvement in assessing a child's lived experience and including them in the whole process’
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Contact Us:
Address:
Sarah PiggottBusiness Improvement and Development Team ManagerStaffordshire County CouncilWedgewood BuildingTipping StreetStafford01785 278434
Email: [email protected]
