There is a lot of "old good" practise in social services. But what new progressive innovations can You describe in social services?
Dear Arvydas,
I believe social work reform works best when it involves the determination of those who manage, work and use services and where there is a modest amount of money to make things happen. For example the Think Local Act Personal (TLAP) partnership has had great influence in social work practice with adults and its principles of person-centred support are now embedded into legislation through the Care Act. Similarly, the Making Safeguarding Personal project, supported by the Local Government Association (LGA) and Association of Directors of Adult Social Services (Adass), is reforming social work practice in adult safeguarding by putting the person in control and adapting some interventions found in children’s social work, such as family group conferencing, for work with adults in in vulnerable situations. In children’s services Link Maker is a social enterprise founded by two adoptive parents developed around a kitchen table in 2014, whose Adoption Link service quickly became responsible for the majority of inter-agency adoptive placements in the UK.
For more on this topic, please see the following links:
http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/01/20/improving-social-work-relies-practitioners-service-users-big-ideas/
http://socialwork.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.001.0001/acrefore-9780199975839-e-312
http://otherwords.org/utahs-progressive-innovation/
http://www.socialplatform.org/blog/innovative-ideas-for-progressive-structural-reforms/
https://www.ideo.com/expertise/social-innovation/
Hoping this will be helpful,
Rafik
Dear Michael,
In post-soviet Lithuania even social services at home were a novelty some time ago, as only stationery services (at residential social care houses) were developed before. Day social centres for vulnerable was another such example of novelty, which nowadays has broad implementation. What new structural forms of social services do You have in Your country?
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