Doing Real Life Change in Children’s Social Care
Embedded Research in Practice
By Jenny Lloyd and Rachael Owens
Published
Apr 1, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447372387Dimensions
216 x 140 mmImprint
Policy PressPublished
Apr 1, 2025Page count
208 pagesISBN
978-1447372394Dimensions
216 x 140 mmImprint
Policy PressJenny Lloyd and Rachael Owens are Assistant Professors in the Department of Sociology at Durham University.
1. Introduction
Part 1: Doing
2. Learning: Methods and means of understanding the social care system
3. Testing: Making a plan and piloting change
4. Bedding down and scaling up: Reviewing, embedding and moving on
Part 2: Feeling
5. Getting beneath the surface: a relational approach to cultural change
6. Holding the process: emotional containment and vulnerability in system change
7. Thinking not shaming: working with problematic practice children’s social care
Part 3: Thinking
8. Where do we go from here? The power of small revolutions in a world of big change
9. Widening our vision: living in the multi-system-verse
10. System change or abolition?
11. Conclusion