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Date: 28th November 2024
Time: 11 am until 1pm
Cost: Free
Mode of delivery: Zoom webinar
Unfortunately this webinar has been postponed until next year
Focus: The webinar will draw on findings from the Innovate Project, a four year study in the UK of social care innovation. During the webinar, participants will:
● Learn about the system conditions and capabilities which are needed to mobilise innovation in social care and enable it to flourish and sustain;
● Be introduced to frameworks helpful for planning and review at the various stages of the innovation journey.
● Consider ethical issues which arise in innovation
● Explore common barriers and how these might be overcome.
● Discuss implications for innovation in their own contexts.
Biography: Michelle Lefevre is Professor of Social Work at the University of Sussex, where her teaching and research interests centre around practice improvement in children’s services, direct work with children, young people and parents, and child & adolescent safeguarding. Michelle has recently led the Innovate Project (www.theinnovateproject.co.uk), a four year study funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, which has considered a) the processes of innovation, and b) promising new approaches to addressing the safeguarding risks young people experience beyond the family home, such as child exploitation. Prior to her academic career, Michelle practised as a social worker and arts psychotherapist with children and families in the context of child protection concerns. Michelle was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2015 for her practice-focused work on developing social workers’ skills in engaging and communicating with children.
Biography https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p28733-michelle-lefevre
The Innovate Project: Researching youth, risk and complexity https://theinnovateproject.co.uk/
Webinar book launch for Innovation in Social Care https://vimeo.com/941697418?share=copy