Understanding, exploring and supporting children’s identity development: Practice Tool (2023)
This practice tool considers how practitioners can explore and write about identity with children and young people. It gives a short introduction to some useful concepts about identity for social care practitioners and provides guidance about how practitioners could support children’s identity development. It also includes a set of practical tips and tools to use to explore children’s identities with them.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Relationships and effective direct work | Communication | Child development | Promote and govern excellent practice
PCF - Values and ethics | Diversity and equality
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Enabling and embedding creative participation in child and family social work: Practice Tool (2022)
This practice tool considers the degree to which children can actively take part in decision-making processes that affect their safety and security.
Life Story Work: Practice Tool (2022)
This practice tool aims to build confidence in explaining difficult stories for care experienced children and young people.
Using genograms in practice: Practice Tool (2021)
This Practice Tool is aimed at practitioners working with children and families to support the use of genograms in practice, both as a tool for direct work and to inform assessment and decision making.
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.