The Big Listen: London Children's Social Work Managers Focus Group

London Innovation & Improvement Alliance (LIIA)

The Big Listen: Valuing Children’s Social Workers is your chance to be heard and to help improve your working environment.

<h2>The Big Listen: Valuing Children’s Social Workers in London</h2>Your Chance to be heard and to help improve your working environmentFocus Group for Permanent Operational Social Work Operational Managers from LondonWhat is #thebiglisten?Local Authorities and Children’s Trust across the London region have funded a piece of research to improve understanding of how they can better support children’s social workers working in the region. They recognise that they need to do more to help social workers do their jobs. Who are we listening to?They are interested in all aspects of the role and are holding focus groups for a wide range of staff including social work students, AYSE social workers, experienced local authority social workers, agency social workers and social work managers. What will happen at the focus groups? The session will be an hour long and held on Microsoft Teams. Each of the sessions is likely to be attended by 15-45 social workers. Topics for discussion will include: <li>What matters most to you about your job 	</li><li>Progression and career development opportunities</li><li>Workload 	</li><li>Agency staff </li><li>Disproportionality and discrimination</li><li>Tools for doing your job </li><li>Pay and conditions</li><li>Support, supervision and training 	</li><li>Safety and wellbeing in your role</li>They will be interactive workshops groups enabled by an independent facilitator. Each of the meetings will be recorded to help analyse the information shared. What do we plan to do with the information collected? The information collected at the focus groups will be used by the 19 Authorities in the SE in partnership with the 33 London Local Authorities to develop a deeper understanding of how they can improve the workplace for children’s social workers. The information collated will be anonymised and not attributed to any individual. We may also share some the high level data collected with the Department for Education. The research will also include surveys of social work professionals and research to identify best practice that they can learn from. We aim to complete the research and report back in Spring 2024. Who is doing the research? The research is being conducted by the South Sector Led Improvement Programme (SESLIP) in partnership with the London Innovation and Improvement Alliance (LIIA). Both are not for profit organisations funded by local authority partners who work to support and improve children’s services.

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