CYP Now - Stop, pause, reflect and repeat

During the pandemic my team were fortunate enough to lead a DfE-funded project, to identify best practice in a pandemic, alongside the University of Birmingham and Anglia Ruskin University, plus five other local authorities and their children in care councils.

Helen Lincoln is director of children, families and education at Essex County Council. Picture: Helen Lincoln

We were trying to make sense of how to do social work in conditions none of us had ever faced, and hopefully will never face again. This was an incredible piece of work; but it is not always easy to accurately evaluate everything you are experiencing when you are in the middle of an incident.

The health crisis, caused by the virus, may not yet be over but most of us have moved on in our behaviour and thinking, and life and social work practice are returning to a new normal. So, now is a good time to stop, pause and reflect, and check out the narratives we created to describe our experience.

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