Previous work - Archive
- Review of psychosocial services at Great Ormond Street hospital
- Audit of need to inform education departmen's social inclusion strategy
- Audit of need to inform and produce delivery plan for children's fund programme
- Audit of need to inform inter-agency planning for children with complex behaviour and emotional needs
- Auditing the needs of children in residence
- Project management of the assessment framework
- Audit of initial and core assessments
- Domestic violence forum
- Review of child and adolescent mental health services
- Directory of children & family resources
- Children's participation in individual decisions, service development, and research
- Review of children looked after by independent foster agencies
- Research briefings for local authority councillors
- Multi-agency audit of need to inform service planning in a Sure Start area
- Counselling services for young children
- Information for families about education research
Review of psychosocial services at Great Ormond Street hospital
A review of the work of the social work and psychology departments of this specialist tertiary hospital, to make recommendations for the integrated management of the departments and the principles needed to underpin the new service for sick children and their families.
Commissioned by Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust + Camden SSD Best Value Review Team, via NCB
Audit of need to inform education department's social inclusion strategy
An audit with schools in two catchment areas, using the Matching Needs and Services method, of 158 children identified by their teacher as having unmet needs. With presentation of the findings to a multi-agency conference.
Commissioned by Leicester City Council Education Department
Audit of need to inform and produce delivery plan for children's fund programme
An audit with local teachers, using the Matching Needs and Services method, of children identified by teachers across the borough as having unmet needs. The findings were disseminated at a multi-agency conference and informed the borough's Children's Fund Delivery Plan.
Commissioned by Thurrock Council
An audit, using the Matching Needs and Services method, of children identified on a multi-agency basis as having particularly complex needs. Many of the children were living in placements far away from home. The findings were used to provide local services for this group of children and young people.
Commissioned by Gloucestershire County Council
Auditing the needs of children in residence
Training residential unit managers in the use of needs-based, common language assessment and data collection tools to audit the needs of children in residence and to evaluate outcomes.
Commissioned by Hampshire County Council
Project management of the assessment framework
Responsibility for the implementation of the Assessment Framework for children in need and their families by social work staff. Including the development of forms for initial and core assessments, child protection conference reports, children in need reviews, and the contribution of other agencies to assessments. Plus the production and updating of an Induction Pack for new staff, and the introduction of common assessment forms to health, education and the voluntary sector.
Commissioned by LB Camden SSD
Audit of initial and core assessments
A study of 100 files of cases transferred from Camden's Referral & Assessment Teams to the long-term Children in Need social work teams, to identify lessons for practice about how staff identify need, severity of need, desirable outcomes and service responses.
Commissioned by Dartington-i
Facilitating a day seminar for professionals from the statutory and voluntary sectors to discuss how best to meet the needs arising from domestic violence in the Borough and the steps to be taken to develop a more effective inter-agency Domestic Violence Forum.
Commissioned by LB Sutton Community Safety Partnership
Review of child and adolescent mental health services
A review of CAMHS services in two areas of the County to inform the restructuring of the service and the development of a more integrated multi-agency response to meet the needs of children with emotional, behavioural and mental health problems.
Commissioned by Mid-Hampshire Primary Care Trust, Winchester, and Eastleigh Healthcare NHS Trust, via YoungMinds
Directory of children & family resources
Compilation of a directory of local services, as part of the Borough's IRT programme, with entries clustered under headings of the "need groups" that had emerged from a multi-agency audit of children and family needs facilitated by RTB in the previous year. With information about the service offered, the provider agency, contact details, referral method and threshold criteria.
Commissioned by LB Harrow Children & Young People's IRT Project
Children's participation in individual decisions, service development, and research
A review of current knowledge about the involvement of children and young people in social care and the extent to which this has brought about change and improved the quality of the services they receive. With comment on gaps in knowledge and aspects that would benefit from practice guidance.
Commissioned by SCIE, via the NCB
Review of children looked after by independent foster agencies
A study of the met and unmet mental health needs of children placed out of borough in independent foster agencies. With an audit of the case files of half of the children and young people in placement; interviews with parents, foster carers and staff from partner agencies; and group discussion with staff from relevant social work teams. The work was part of the CAMHS Modernisation Agenda, and to help inform the design of future services.
Commissioned by LB Hounslow SSD and the West London Mental Health Trust, via YoungMinds
Research briefings for local authority councillors
A series of research briefings with the aim of providing information about key research findings, good practice, and policy developments that will help councillors improve outcomes for children and families in need by ensuring that adequate and effective services are provided for them.
- Recruitment + Retention of Foster Carers
- Family Group Conferences + Family + Friends Care
Commissioned by research in practice
Multi-agency audit of need to inform service planning in a Sure Start area
An audit, using the Matching Needs and Services method, of the files of 100 children living in the Sure Start area. The sample was drawn from the caseloads of health visitors, the local primary school, the education psychology service and social services.
Commissioned by Abbey Sure Start, LB Barking and Dagenham
Counselling services for young children
A study to elicit the views of service providers about the need for counselling services for children aged 4 to 13 who fall below the threshold for social services intervention, and to identify messages from the research evidence. To help inform the commissioning of Children's Fund services in relation to two strands of activity counselling services, and services using counselling skills.
Commissioned by Sefton Children's Fund
Information for families about education research
A leaflet that tells young people and families what research says about the education of children in need - at home and in care. With information about what teachers, social workers and families can do to help children do best in school. This was a pilot family version of a RiP Quality Protects Research Briefing.
Commissioned by research in practice