The new approach will see 26 “family safeguarding teams” set up across the county, each made up of several children’s social workers, as well as a domestic abuse specialist and a community psychiatric nurse.
Each member of staff will receive training in “motivational interviewing” techniques, a practice originally developed by psychologists in the 1980s to help problem drinkers.
The idea is to help parents of children considered to be the most at risk to explore their attitude towards behaviour change, using warmth and empathy to strengthen the parents’ motivation to change through a process of negotiation.
The concept is currently being trialled in Islington, but this will be the first time it will form the basis of child safeguarding practice across an entire authority.
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