PROJECT
Centre for Systemic Social Work
PURPOSE
To improve relationships and safety within families, reducing the number of looked-after children
FUNDING
£4m over three years from 2016 from the Department for Education's Partners in Practice programme
BACKGROUND
Systemic social work involves building strong relationships with families to help them make sustainable, positive changes. It was introduced to the tri-borough partnership of Kensington and Chelsea, Westminster and Hammersmith and Fulham in 2013 by Kensington's then family services director Clare Chamberlain, who felt social work "had lost its way a bit". "We'd turned into case managers; assessing, co-ordinating and referring on," she recalls. "Systemic social work enables social workers to regain their role as the person making the difference for families."
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