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 Press
Doing Real Life Change in Children’s Social Care
Jenny 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
