Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Skills and
strategies for
practice
- Assessment and
intervention
- Assessement can be something that
initiates a processes-ASPIRE
- Specify
- Planning
- Intervention
- is never neutral
- can have both
good and bad
outcomes
- can create difficulties
- may provide opportunities
in which power may be
abused
- has become more
policy-driven
- early intervention in children’s
lives has become commonplace
- Review
- Evaluation
- should reoccur as the
process is underway
- clear processes
- thought-through rationales
- understanding of underlying factor
- Power and practice
- who is assessing who’ and for
what reason
- Individual's power
- resilience, or the
power to be
- capacity to withstand
unexpected trials and events
- defensive power,
- agency or the power to do
- Offenive power
- Forms
- over others
- power to influence
- political power.
- can be used positively to
combat discrimination and
inequalities.
- Focault
- power relations
- creates resistance.
- has described the emergence of the
‘disciplinary society’, one focused on the
surveillance of citizens and the regulation of
all aspects of their behaviour.
- children can often experience
power relations in different ways
to adults.
- a key strategy in rights-based
practice for children and young
people is the UNCRC
- Power is context-dependent, and views
about who has power at a particular
time and at a particular place can be
disputed
- Power is always
relative and its
distribution will
change
- Power is always
relative and its
distribution will
change
- Abuses of power
- institutional abuse
- Values (seen by
youth in care)
- Right to your own
opinion and the right to
speak.
- trust, respect, dealing with anger,
honesty, and listening and thinking
before decisions are made
- Advocacy
- promote social inclusion,
equality and social justice
- address the power
imbalances
- reduce abuses of
power.
- Professional power
- can be highly influential when
it comes to making decisions
about interventions
- paternalized by
institutional power.
- adhere to codes of practice
- subject to regulation and
inspection
- expected to work to
national standards.
- clear communication, good
relationships and integrated
working
- Multi-agency collaboration:
- influenced by:
- lack of a common
operational
language
- real differences in views
of what should be done
- Common
Assessment
Framework
- key component of
‘Every Child Matters
- every child needs
the support to :
- be healthy
- stay safe
- enjoy and achieve
- make a positive
contribution
- achieve
economic
wellbeing
- The Children
Act 2004
- identify
childrenwith special
needs
- Consent from the family is
required to begin a CAF.
- they are fully involved
throughout the process
- Team around
the Child
- tool for assessing, of a child’s needs
and finding a way to accommodate
those needs so that there are positive
outcomes
- ecological approach
- My World
Triangle’
- introduces a mental map that helps
practitioners understand a child or
young person's whole world
- framework for gathering
information – analysing it and
making an assessment prior to
making a plan is an essential part of
an ASPIRE approach