Defensible decision-making in children’s social care - resource pack for practice supervisors: Frontline Briefing (2022)
Introduction
This open-access resource pack has been developed to support practice supervisors to:
- facilitate reflective and analytical discussions in supervision which inform defensible decision-making
- review and develop skills in writing brief, analytical summaries which ensure that each child’s social care record demonstrates evidence of defensible decision-making and a coherent narrative about their involvement with the organisation
- promote team-wide discussion and shared learning about analysis and defensible decision-making with the practitioners they line manage in order to enhance assessment.
The resource will be relevant to any member of staff who provides individual or group supervision and/or line manages social workers. For example, practice supervisors, advanced practitioners, team managers or assistant team managers.
This resource pack sits alongside two other linked publications designed to be used together to support and promote defensible decision-making within children’s social care organisations. See Related Content below.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Confident analysis and decision-making
Defensible decision-making in children’s social care - challenge questions for leaders: Leaders' Briefing (2022)
This open-access Leaders' Briefing is written for senior leaders, it provides an overview of key issues to prompt discussion and enhance organisational capability in defensible decision-making and includes challenge questions for middle managers and senior leaders to consider.
Defensible decision-making in children’s social care - CPD Guide: Practice Guide (2022)
This open-access CPD Guide is written for staff who have responsibility for training and development in children’s social care, The guide contains all the information you need to run three CPD sessions for practice supervisors using tools provided in the 'Defensible decision-making in children’s social care - a resource pack for practice supervisors: Supervisors' Briefing (2022)'.
Good practice in recording and access to records: Strategic Briefing (2022)
This briefing is for managers and senior leaders in children’s social care. Its aim is to enable a better understanding of the benefits of person-centred recording and to help strategic leaders and managers think about how they might implement improvements in this area of their local practice.
Analysis and critical thinking in assessment: Resource Pack (2014)
The handbook includes key research and practice messages around analysis and critical thinking in assessment. It combines research evidence with the practice experience of agencies to explore how identified barriers to good assessment might be overcome. The focus is on ‘thinking in practice’ and, above all, on supporting practitioners to be more analytical in their assessments.
Analysis and critical thinking in assessment: Literature review (2014)
The Literature Review examines analytical, critical and reflective thinking and writing in assessment, which is vital not only in social work but across a range of disciplines that work together to achieve the best possible outcomes for children, young people and their families.