In Cumbria, Signs of Safety is about more children and young people remaining with families when the families have the potential to care for them safely.
Signs of Safety is an innovative strengths-based, safety-organised approach to child protection casework. The approach focuses on the question "How can the worker build partnerships with parents and children in situations of suspected or substantiated child abuse and still deal rigorously with the maltreatment issues?"
This strengths-based and safety-focused approach to child protection work is grounded in partnership and collaboration with families and other professionals. It expands the investigation of risk to encompass strengths and Signs of Safety that can be built upon to stabilise and strengthen a child's and family's situation. By utilising a questioning approach rooted in Solution Focused Brief Therapy, the family are at the heart of all decision making and are empowered to make positive choices about their own lives.
Although primarily developed as an approach to working with child protection, Signs of Safety it is equally applicable to:
(Please see Signs of Safety analysis categories attached at the bottom of this page)
Working relationships
“Thinking critically and fostering a stance of inquiry” (Munro) – questioning approach
Landing grand aspirations in everyday practice
Families as assets – honour and build on their strengths
Fostering hope not hopelessness
Help families to make changes for themselves
Apply relationship based practice
Putting children at the heart of how we plan and deliver support to them
Importance of direct work with children and families
We have nothing more to learn from mistakes – need to spend more time looking at strengths
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Signs of Safety Website | https://www.signsofsafety.net/ |
Signs of Safety Newsletter - October 2017 | http://mailchi.mp/signsofsafety/signs-of-safety-newsletter-xw1uzujuwc?e=642b233097![]() |