Exploring Expertise: Learning from evidence on Parenting Through Adversity for parents of babies and children 0-10
Foundations is the national What Works Centre for Children & Families. We generate and champion the actionable evidence that improves family support services, so more vulnerable children have the foundational relationships they need to thrive in life. We know that there is often a gap between what the evidence tells us is effective and what is being commissioned for children and families locally. We seek to make accessing up-to-date evidence easier, to address barriers to evidence use, and to support better evidence-based decision making at every level.
Our Practice guides have been written to support the delivery of the Children's Social Care National Framework, and they translate the strongest available evidence into recommendations and principles for local leaders to support effective practice and strengthen services for families.
In this session you will hear from Becky Saunders and Ian Moore who worked together on the production of the Parenting Through Adversity - Parents of babies & children 0-10 Practice Guide, based upon two underpinning systematic reviews of evidence, and from Sonia Beard in our policy team who will speak to what this evidence means in relation to the policy that is shaping Children's Social Care. This Guide focuses on support for parents whose circumstances include adversities that interact to challenge and undermine the skills, abilities and resources they have available for their parenting role - including poverty, substance misuse, intimate partner violence and challenges with mental health. The guide offers information about the programmes and practices that can help to strengthen families’ response to, and resilience in the face of these challenges and improve both parent and child outcomes.
Whilst the main target audience for these guides is local leaders, they have much that will be of interest to practitioners, and we will seek to present the findings, and to ask some questions of the group, in a way that will bring the richness of the evidence to life in relation to the work that you do and the challenges that you experience within the systems of support available to families.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN
- An overview of the Recommendations and Key Principles within the guide
- Insights from local areas - hear about how the guide is being used by local services to shape practice and respond to service transformation
- An opportunity to reflect on what this means for you in your work and to build awareness of the evidence available to support practice and where to find it
PRESENTERS
Becky Saunders, Senior Practice Development Adviser, Foundations
As a Senior Practice Development Adviser with Foundations Becky is part of a team that works to influence and support local leaders to improve the availability and use of evidence-based support for families by how they lead, design and deliver local systems and services. The Practice Development team delivers Foundations’ local offer, and Becky has led partnership projects with local areas to implement evidence-based approaches to improving outcomes including the development of the Family Hubs planning Framework, and Foundations' Changemakers programme, jointly funded by DfE and the Youth Endowment Fund. Becky is a co-author on the Parenting through Adversity Practice Guide. Becky started her career in family and health policy before training as a Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist, and Parent-Infant Psychotherapist, and working for many years as a clinician, in NHS CAMHS and in the voluntary sector. Prior to working with Foundations Becky was at the Early Intervention Foundation and at Home-Start UK as Head of Policy.
Dr Ian Moore, Senior Evidence Officer, Foundations
Dr Ian Moore is a Senior Evidence Officer in Foundations' Evidence Synthesis team. At Foundations Ian works on our Domestic Abuse feasibility studies, has led on the design of systematic reviews on parenting support and reunification and has been a co-author on the Parenting through Adversity Practice Guide. At the early intervention Foundation Ian's work included co-authoring a practical guide for supporting health relationships among new parents and worked across the Supporting Families portfolio. Ian joined EIF from Durham University, where he was studying for a PhD in education, focused on psycholinguistics, personality and its relationship with learning outcomes.
Sonia Beard, Senior Policy Adviser, Foundations
Sonia Beard is a Senior Policy Adviser at Foundations working as part of a small policy team whose role it is to influence and engage with government officials to ensure that Foundation's research and practice evidence is translated into impact on national policy. Sonia's background spans across child health, including public health, early intervention and prevention. Prior to joining Foundations, Sonia has worked in child health policy at NHS England and more recently at the Department of Health and Social Care where she lead work across legislation, strategy and briefing roles for the Government's Family Hubs and Start for Life programme. Sonia is a trustee for a charity specialising in foetal cardiology and has been a lived experience ambassador for NHS Blood and Transplant and Public Health England.
WHO'S IT FOR
This session is for social workers, supervising social workers, team managers, and senior practitioners in the children's and families sector. It will also relevant to those that are interested in the shaping of evidence-based policy and practice in this sector.
FEES
Members: FREE (don't forget to log in to your account to receive your discount)
Non-members: £20+VAT.
Places on this event are limited, so early booking is recommended.
CONTACT
Telephone: 0207 520 7520 / 0310
Email: events@corambaaf.org.uk
£20.00