Reimagining and Transforming Children’s Social Care

With Professors Andrew Turnell and Eileen Munro

Children’s Social Care is under pressure, facing growing demand, escalating numbers of children in care, alongside increasingly constrained budgets. The system needs reimagining. Government reforms envisage a stronger role for wider family and network in keeping children safe at home. This webinar proposes naturally connected networks are also vital when children come into care, whether briefly or permanently.

We are all born to belong, therefore we, in children services, work in the service of belonging. Staking a claim for belonging as the heart and soul of our work directs our imaginations to the essence of what is required for humans to flourish. In this webinar designed for Directors, Principal Social Workers and Senior Managers, Andrew and Eileen will offer the motif of belonging as the organising principle around which to reimagine and transform children’s social care.

Eileen will introduce the webinar and close…