Based on the findings of the Innovate Project, this book asks how services can be re-envisioned and transformed through innovation. The authors offer insights into the core conditions necessary for socially just and practice-congruent social care innovation that responds to the distinctive, contemporary safeguarding concerns facing young people.
Table of Content
1. Setting the Scene
2. Creating the Conditions for Innovation to Flourish
3. Recursiveness in Early-Stage Innovation
4. Deciding between Innovation and Practice Improvement Measures
5. What ‘Works’ in Innovation?
6. Innovation and Organisational Defences
7. Building Learning Partnerships between Innovators and Researchers
8. Implications of This Study for Policy and Practice
About the author
Carlene Firmin is Professor of Social Work at Durham University. She previously worked as a Principal Research Fellow at the University of Bedfordshire, where she developed the Contextual Safeguarding programme. In 2011 Carlene became the youngest black woman to receive an MBE for her seminal work on gang-affected young women in the UK.
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