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Is It My Job?

Is It My Job?. Supporting the development and implementation of protocols relating to substance misuse and children. Overview. Experiential exercise Hearing children’s experiences Short presentation Plenary. Experiential Exercise. In small groups please spend

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Is It My Job?

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  1. Is It My Job? Supporting the development and implementation of protocols relating to substance misuse and children.

  2. Overview • Experiential exercise • Hearing children’s experiences • Short presentation • Plenary

  3. Experiential Exercise In small groups please spend 5 minutes considering and recording words which describe the following :

  4. What is society’s view of parenthood?

  5. What is society’s view of parental substance misuse?

  6. Hearing Children’s Experiences

  7. For too long the needs and welfare of children in families affected by substance misuse have been overlooked. We must now concentrate our efforts on helping these children. Ministerial Forward GOPR 2003

  8. Policy

  9. 1 in 10 children affected by parental substance use across UK • 1.3 - 2 million children affected by parental alcohol misuse (Alcohol Harm Reduction Strategy for England 2004) • 250,000 - 350,000 children affected by parental drug misuse in UK (Hidden Harm 2003)

  10. Multi-agency Local Protocols • Children’s welfare is the most important consideration • It is everyone’s responsibility to ensure that children are protected from harm • We should help children early and not wait • We must work together

  11. Implementing local Multi-agency protocols • Multi-agency volume Briefings • 2 Day skills based Workshops • Single agency input • ‘Hard to reach’ groups e.g. GPs, foster carers • Local reflective practice groups • Multi-agency steering groups • Focus Groups feedback to agencies

  12. c.7000 staff attended briefings and workshops in Scotland

  13. Participants

  14. Reflective Practice Research Values Action planning Adult voices Children's voices Risk

  15. Challenges • Its Not MY Job! • Professional resistance • Different languages • Different skills? • Differences between adults and children’s needs • Gaps in worker knowledge and confidence • Communication and collaboration • How we engage meaningfully with children

  16. Light bulb moments ? • Hearing the experience of children and families • Reflecting on serious case reviews/ child death inquiries • Reflective practice • Same information had different meanings to different professionals • They could directly use someone else’s experience in their own case • Listening to someone else’s case generated thoughts of their own • Through discussion being able to explore more deeply a particular point

  17. Outcomes • It is my job Your role in effecting change • Existing skills and strengths are valued • Importance of local multi-agency protocols, networks, responses. • Training is part of a wider process of change that is supported organisationally and strategically

  18. Conclusions • Cultural shifts • Partnership with Families • Working together • Multi-disciplinary training • Support and supervision of staff • Resources • Child at the centre of practice

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