The Relational Social Work Podcast is aimed at child and family social workers. Relationships are central to social work practice and this podcast focusses on t...
Always Hope: Bringing innovative change to complex systems
Send us a textIn the final episode of series 1, Hannah, Matt and Producer Arin talk about previous episodes, sharing their reflections of the series as a whole. Matt and Hannah then chat with Jessie Ben-Ami and Frances Flaxington from The Innovation Unit about the work they do, with a particular focus on Always Hope, a project which has brought prison, probation and Children’s Social Care together, to provide a more joined up and impactful approach to working with care experienced young adults leaving custody. Make sure you listen to the end, where Coventry City Council choir sing us out with what is sure to become a Christmas classic!Thank you for listening to The Relational Social Work Podcast. We are always interested to learn what you thought of the episode and welcome your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future topics. Stay connected and join the conversation on our social media channels! LinkedIn: The relational Social Work PodcastInstagram: @RelationalSWVisit Our Website and Subscribe to our mailing list: www.therelationalsocialworkpodcast.com
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Sukriti Sen: Fighting for fairness - from Bangladeshi school girl to Coventry’s DCS
Send us a textIn this episode Matt and Hannah speak with Sukriti Sen, the Director of Coventry City Council’s Children’s and Education Services. Sukriti shares her experiences of growing up as a person of colour, her experiences of racism, her sense of fairness, and the importance of Children’s Services representing the communities that they serve, and how this led her into social worker. Discussions include the importance of relationships, the financial challenges faced by Local Authorities, the ethical issues in relation to AI in social worker, and her hope for the future of social work.Thank you for listening to The Relational Social Work Podcast. We are always interested to learn what you thought of the episode and welcome your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future topics. Stay connected and join the conversation on our social media channels! LinkedIn: The relational Social Work PodcastInstagram: @RelationalSWVisit Our Website and Subscribe to our mailing list: www.therelationalsocialworkpodcast.com
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Beth Vecchione: Changing lives through the arts
Send us a textIn this episode Matt and Hannah chat with Beth Vecchione, founder and Director of Care to Dance, about the impact that dance can have on the lives of care experienced young people. The episode explores the importance of access to the arts, trauma informed approaches, and how social work can be brought into a creative space to support young people to thrive.Thank you for listening to The Relational Social Work Podcast. We are always interested to learn what you thought of the episode and welcome your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future topics. Stay connected and join the conversation on our social media channels! LinkedIn: The relational Social Work PodcastInstagram: @RelationalSWVisit Our Website and Subscribe to our mailing list: www.therelationalsocialworkpodcast.com
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The Children and Families Truth Commission: Listening to voices which are hard to hear
Send us a textIn this week’s episode Hannah and Matt speak with Michele Simmons, Simon Howarth and Natasha Phillips, authors of ‘Eroding the Right to Family Life: Human Rights violations in Britain’s child protection systems’. This episode explores the findings of this report, developed through the voices of over 600 parents and young people who have experienced child protection and care proceedings, exploring the harm the system can cause, as well as recommendations of how the system can work better ‘with’ children and their families. For social workers and others working in the child protection system, this episode may be difficult to listen to, but often it is the voices which are difficult to hear, that we need to listen to and can learn the most from. Thank you for listening to The Relational Social Work Podcast. We are always interested to learn what you thought of the episode and welcome your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future topics. Stay connected and join the conversation on our social media channels! LinkedIn: The relational Social Work PodcastInstagram: @RelationalSWVisit Our Website and Subscribe to our mailing list: www.therelationalsocialworkpodcast.com
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Stories from Childhood: A World Children’s Day Special
Send us a textTo mark World Children’s Day which takes place on 20th November, in this episode Matt, Hannah and producer Arin, will share stories from their childhoods, reflect on how these experiences have shaped them, and reminisce about their favourite TV programmes and childhood foods. This episode explores identity, loss, shame, strength and the importance of wider family in children’s lives.Thank you for listening to The Relational Social Work Podcast. We are always interested to learn what you thought of the episode and welcome your feedback, suggestions, or ideas for future topics. Stay connected and join the conversation on our social media channels! LinkedIn: The relational Social Work PodcastInstagram: @RelationalSWVisit Our Website and Subscribe to our mailing list: www.therelationalsocialworkpodcast.com
The Relational Social Work Podcast is aimed at child and family social workers. Relationships are central to social work practice and this podcast focusses on the importance of connection and relationships in social work ‘with’ children, young people and their families, exploring this through meaningful conversations with inspiring leaders from across the sector. The podcast will celebrate excellent and innovative practice ‘with’ amazing children, young people and families, and have honest conversations about some of the struggles which we can face in children and family social work. There will be a minimum of one episode released every month.Your Hosts:Matt ClaytonMatt has led and developed a number of services within Coventry primarily around children in care and care leavers. Matt has a reputation for innovative practice with young people at the center. This has included leading on the BAFTA nominated documentary Superkids and follow up Channel 4 show Kids, piloting the first automatic water bill discount to care leavers and the rollout Lifelong Links in Coventry. Matt is passionate about the importance of maintaining and promoting loving relationships for children in care and has had strategic oversight of Coventry’s reunification work as part of this. Matt was recently invited to write the foreword to the NSPCC and Action for Children joint national report: Home again: reunification practice in England. Matt is the ADCS member of the Family Justice Council and Vice Chair of the National Leaving Care Benchmarking Forum steering group. Matt also Chairs the Adoption Central England Executive Board. After 20 years of neglecting himself, Matt has rediscovered his teenage love of being active outside, having just complete couch to 5k! When Matt isn’t working or running, he enjoys watching football and supports Liverpool.Hannah BedfordHannah qualified as a social worker in 2013, following in her father’s footsteps. Hannah has a passion for practice and practice leadership and has held several roles with a focus on practice development, both in practitioner and management roles. This has including being involved in the development of Coventry’s Social Work Academy, being a Child Sexual Abuse Practice Lead and most recently leading on Coventry Family Valued; a whole-system culture change programme in Coventry, which has led to the safe reduction of the number of children in care in Coventry, against rising numbers of looked after children nationally. Hannah is passionate about restorative practice and has led on the development of Coventry’s practice approach; with a focus on working ‘with’ children and their families, rather than doing ‘to’ or ‘for’ them. Apart from being a proud social worker, Hannah loves dungarees, loves cats and dogs (equally), and supports Liverpool F.C.
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