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Focus on Practice in three London boroughs: round 2 evaluation report

  • Lisa Bostock
    ,
  • Amy Lynch
    ,
  • Emily Munro
    ,
  • Priya Menon
    ,
  • Sheyi Ogunshakin
    ,
  • Charlotte Saunders
Research Output: Book/Report Commissioned report

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Abstract

The Focus on Practice (FoP) programme, introduced in June 2014 across 3 London boroughs - London Borough of Westminster, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) and the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham (LBHF) - brought systemic practice to family social work. The introduction of this programme was expected to lead to a new cultural norm for practitioners based on systemic theory, reduce the number of families who are repeat clients and reduce the number of children in care. Kantar’s Public Division was commissioned to conduct a follow-up evaluation in 2018 that builds on the findings of the Round 1 evaluation by assessing the longer-term impacts. In parallel, TGC was commissioned to undertake a supplementary evaluation. The University of Bedfordshire evaluation focused on understanding the quality of systemic social work practice across the 3 boroughs using observational methods.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Commissioned report

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 01/09/2020

Publication status

Published - 01/09/2020

Place of publication

London

Publisher

Department for Education, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9781838701475

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/626028

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