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Rethinking Practice: Power Dynamics and Ethics in Children's Services

The phrase “practice what you preach” often emphasizes conventional wisdom, but what if we reverse this? This discussion delves into the complexities of power dynamics between policymakers and practitioners in children's services, challenging us to question established hierarchies. It advocates for an approach where practitioners influence policy grounded in real-world experiences. By promoting innovation and trust, we can create safer systems for vulnerable populations. This exploration also addresses ethical concerns in practice, emphasizing the need for a balanced approach to power and responsibility.

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Rethinking Practice: Power Dynamics and Ethics in Children's Services

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  1. Preaching what we practice

  2. What does this mean? • We usually say ‘practice what you preach’ so this is an interesting and almost counter-intuitive reversal • It questions conventional arrangements and hierarchies of knowledge and status many of which are not often questioned • But is it also affirming another set of orthodoxies? • Should we always assume that we should preach what we practice? Would that be a good thing?

  3. Questioning conventions • Thinking and doing • Those who make policy and those who are subject to it (Children, carers.....) • Those with power or access to power and ‘others’ • But the question of power is very complex • The power of practitioners ? What power do they have?

  4. Children’s services today • Learning from the bottom up rather than top down • Locating your policies in everyday practice realities • Stopping the disconnect between the policy makers and the practitioners • Encouraging innovation • Getting government to ‘keep out’

  5. Where has this come from? • Command and control legacy of new Labour • Key moments ...death of Peter Connolly, research based critiques, rolling back the state impulses of politicians

  6. Confidence and Trust • What’s the difference? • Why are systems that are only concerned with confidence so problematic when dealing with services for those who are vulnerable? • Building services based on confidence and trust

  7. Safer systems in children’s services • Those who practice should be more involved in designing safer systems • Indeed, systems design is everyone’s business • Developments today – examples of safer systems ..... • Innovation and experiment – hand back power to workers.....

  8. Going back, going forward • A number of ethical issues in contemporary discourses on practice with children and families today • The abuse of neuroscience , early intervention and child protection has created a ‘perfect storm’ • Inequality, shame and distancing • Expanding our moral imaginations in very tough times

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