How to Place the Family at the Centre of the Review in 2023
Thursday 2nd March 2023, 1.00-2.30pm
There are many reasons why we invite families to participate in our review processes. Not only will the quality and accuracy of the review be enhanced, but there can also be a cathartic element for those family members who decide to engage with the process. They may benefit from some support with their own healing process and it may satisfy a need for them to contribute to the prevention of future similar incidents.
If the review is to gain a more complete review of the life of the subject and/or perpetrator and see it through their eyes, it is important that this engagement takes place in a way that is given careful thought. On each occasion it is relevant to ask ourselves whether it is suitable and offered via the means considered most helpful by the person required to interact with the process.
In the post pandemic era many reviews continue to maintain virtual formats for most elements. It's time to consider the advantages and disadvantages that result from various means of communication.
'For a [child protection] system to be able to learn about how well it is doing, it needs good feedback about both the processes and the outcomes of the services provided to families'
Soft is Hardest: Leading for Learning in Child Protection
Services Following a Child Fatality, Turnell, Munro, Murphy
It is not only the child protection systems which benefit from receiving good feedback. Those involved in Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews and also Safeguarding Adults Reviews and Domestic Homicide Reviews are a key conduit of feedback between families and services.
I am offering an opportunity to explore the current landscape and enable time and space for reflection on the way engagement with families in reviews has progressed. I am joined for this FREE virtual training opportunity by James Rowlands, Doctoral Research, University of Sussex and Dr Elizabeth Cook, Senior Lecturer, City, University of London.
For this FREE virtual training opportunity, we are offering 90 minutes of discussion, creative insights and plenty of opportunity for Q and A.
I am Donna Ohdedar, & I support review commissioners, participants, quality assurance professionals & reviewers to improve the quality of reviews. I want to share a live conversation I will be having with James and Elizabeth where we will respond to questions from you, the live audience.
You are invited to this free live podcast workshop designed for those involved in Safeguarding Adults Review, Domestic Homicide Reviews & Child Safeguarding Practice Reviews.
Join us for 90 minutes of discussion plus Q & A, where we will share our thoughts & invite questions from you, the audience. Our aim is to shed light on the situations we encounter in reviews just like the ones you contribute to, read, quality assure or write.
Click here to join.
Donna Ohdedar, Head of SILP
Dr Elizabeth Cook, Senior Lecturer, City, University of London
Dr. Elizabeth Cook is a Senior Lecturer in the Violence and Society Centre, City, University of London, which she joined in January 2020.
As a sociologist and criminologist, her principal areas of research expertise include homicide, family, and gender and their intersections with harms to society, specifically: analysing pathways between gender, inequality, and homicide; improving statutory fatality review systems; and accounting for the impact of family advocacy and activism on crime, justice and punishment. Her expertise forms part of a large UKRI-funded Prevention Research Partnership (PRP) Consortium Award on Violence, Health and Society, of which, she is a Co-Investigator. This Consortium engages with multiple public, governmental and third sector bodies who generate data on violence with the aim of developing a theory of change of violence, health and society.
James Rowlands, Doctoral Researcher & Doctoral Tutor, University of Sussex
James comes from a practice-based background in the domestic and sexual abuse sector, having originally trained as a Social Worker and then becoming an Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA). Before commencing his PhD in 2018, he spent 14 years working in the voluntary and statutory sector in a variety of roles. Most recently he was the Strategic Commissioner for Domestic Violence and Abuse, Sexual Violence and VAWG at Brighton & Hove City Council and East Sussex County Council.
The Learning Experience
This free live workshop will take place as a virtual discussion for you to join with ‘video on’. We are taking your questions on the day. Please let us have your questions here by midnight Monday 27th February. Afterwards we will send the recording to our editor to publish a summary as an episode of the Safeguarding & Domestic Abuse Sector podcast [click here for more details].
You can choose whether your question will be included in the podcast episode after the event.
Are you ready to learn & reflect with us? You know it will be inspiring & thought provoking. Our aim is to support the learning & improvement community to unlock positive changes in their next review.
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