Prof. Carlene Firmin
carlenefirmin.bsky.social
Prof. Carlene Firmin
@carlenefirmin.bsky.social
Prof of Social Work, Durham University
Founder, Contextual Safeguarding
Reposted by Prof. Carlene Firmin
This week, he launched our "Safe" podcast with @carlenefirmin.bsky.social, diving deep into contextual safeguarding and how we can better protect young people.

Listen now: youtu.be/7wJw9CyIzNI?...
Carlene Firmin: Contextual Safeguarding is Common Sense | Safe E1
YouTube video by Youth Endowment Fund
youtu.be
March 21, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Ah thanks Roma. Would love to chat about it when we next meet up xx
January 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
7. 'Rather than identify and lament the limitations of existing systems we call upon scholars, service leaders, and practitioners to collaborate with the communities and families they serve, and implement the transformational reimagining we know is required'

Have a read and share your thoughts
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
6. 'Our institutional ethnography invites us to look beyond service performance and instead recommend changes to system purpose'

Without such reform system foundations will continue to shape (and limit) the impact of innovations on service delivery.
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
5. 'The innovations used, disruptive as they were to service features and facilitative as they were of gradual service improvement, remained frustrated by service foundations. Transformation was required with four foundational assumptions, that service-level innovation alone did not disrupt'
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
4. We focused on three features of their responses:

Engagement with specific dynamics of EFRH

Ability to support young people through collaborative and trusting relationships

Interagency capabilities
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
3. We 'examined whether social care organizations could address these challenges by introducing one or more of three innovation frameworks'

Identifying 'the extent to which sites successfully redesigned local systems & the ways their progress was halted, undermined, or otherwise challenged'
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
2. We note that 'since 2018 policy across the four UK nations has increasingly authorized social work responses to EFRH...Yet, authorizing something to happen, or recommending that it does, is not commensurate with its possibility'
January 2, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Wow thank you so much 🙏🏾
December 12, 2024 at 11:51 AM