Transcript THINKING SERIOUSLY ABOUT … The Future of the Youth Service

THINKING SERIOUSLY ABOUT …
The Future of the Youth Service
David Cracknell
Separated, Networked or Integrated?
25 November 2009
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Mind the Metaphors!
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Discussion Group 3: INTEGRATED SERVICES
The establishment of the Education and Skills Authority will facilitate greater
complementarity between formal and non-formal education.
It is also recognised that other sectors have a significant engagement with
children and young people (e.g. health and social services).
Community planning will enable District Councils to play a greater role in the
future.
This discussion group will facilitate an exploration of how
improved linkages can be made between related services for
children and young people.
Separated, Networked or Integrated?
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COLLABORATIVE
CONTINUUM
Cooperate < > Collaborate <>Network <> Partner <> Integrate
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NETWORKS
Widely shared
Network Purposes
Activists
Purposes
Activists
Motivation
Increasing
Motivation, wider
participation
Effective Networks in their initial stages focus on a limited
number of processes:
-articulating shared values and a common focus
-building trust and mutual knowledge
-developing a strategic approach
(Hadfield and Chapman,2007, Leading School-based Networks)
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Purpose of Integration?
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Why should we Integrate?
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Political Control and Accountability?
Professional Self-Defence?
Collaborative Dividends?
Systemic Efficiency?
Safeguarding and Risk Management?
Client Demand?
Modelling Integrated Living?
Securing Wellbeing of Young People?
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People who integrate?
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2020 Children and Young People’s
Workforce Strategy
(DCSF/CWDC - Dec 2008)
– Ambitious for every child and young
person
– Excellent in their practice
– Committed to partnership & integrated
working
– Respected and valued as professionals
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New Professionalism
Cabinet Office: ‘Excellence and Fairness’ 2008
‘new professionalism’ for “all people who work in public services”
to “unleash the creativity of those who work at the front line”
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Complexity of One Workforce Landscape
inter-agency (between two different agencies)
multi-agency (across more than two agencies)
inter-professional (between two professions)
multi-professional (across more than two professions)
trans-professional (bringing more than one profession
together to create new and adapted professional
processes and practices).
(It can be argued that trans-professional working is most clearly represented in
the Northern European and Scandinavian notions of social pedagogy)
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Common Core of Skills and Knowledge
for the Children’s Workforce
Designed to develop a culture of inter-agency working to improve and
enhance outcomes for children and young people - basis for a long-term
change aimed at creating a new and re-shaped children’s workforce. Key
tool for promoting integrated services for children, young people, families.
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Effective communication and engagement
Child and young person development
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
Supporting transitions
Multi-agency working
Sharing information
Communicating and engaging effectively with children,
young people and families
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Championing Children: a shared set of skills,
knowledge and behaviours for those leading and
managing integrated children’s services
Involves leading and management of integrated working
and providing effective supervision
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Achieving outcomes
Safeguarding and promoting the welfare of the child
Providing direction
Leading and managing change
Working with people
Managing information
Communicating and engaging effectively with children,
young people and families
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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One Children’s Workforce Framework
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Places to Integrate?
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Collaborative multi-professional practitioner
enquiry offers a way forward in the
development of the shared language and
common understandings from which a ‘transprofessional knowledge base’ might grow.
...practitioner research is instrumental in
moving beyond established ‘communities of
practice’ and towards the development of
‘professional learning communities’.
...when practitioner enquiry is open and critical
it can be very effective in stimulating interprofessional dialogue opening up spaces and
offering opportunities for professionals to
theorise their own action and to relate this to
the practice of others.
(Hulme & Cracknell, 2009)
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‘We set out to explore the idea of practitioner
enquiry through Action Learning Sets and small
scale practice –based inquiry as “Third Spaces”
that play a significant role in the process of
reflection and change. We came to see these
structured experiences as ‘sites’ where
practitioners could think and develop, individually
and collectively, and where the process of change
could be nurtured, drawing on but not constrained
and dominated by, the influence of current
practice or the requirements of policy to initiate
‘solutions’ to ‘problems’.
(Zeichner, Homi Bhaba, Aoki)
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Third Space and Hybridity Theory
Bhabha (1994) develops notions of cultural
exchange and inter-disciplinarity that occupy a
space between competing cultural traditions, an
innovative site of collaboration, and contestation
where ‘border discourse’ takes place. He goes on
to develop a hybridity paradigm, arguing that this
‘third space’ is a ‘hybrid site’ that witnesses the
production, rather than just the reflection of
cultural meaning. He explores settings in which
people are not bound in antagonistic binarisms.
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Practitioner Enquiry as Third Space...
Third
Space
Build bridges between
professional knowledges
and discourses.
Navigational space to cross
and succeed in different
discourse communities.
Conversational space - cultural,
social and knowledge space
where competing discourses
“converse” and are challenged .
(Moje ,2004:43-44).
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Second
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Third
Space
First
Space
Second
Space
Third
Space
First
Space
Second
Space
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Integrating Processes?
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Hardiker Model
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– Safeguarding
– Common Assessment Framework
– Lead Professional
– Social Pedagogy
– Family Support Systems
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TEN TIPS FOR COLLABORATING
1. Don’t do it unless you have to!
2. Budget more time than you expect.
3. Understand other agendas, protect your own.
4. Build trust through small steps or wins.
5. Pay attention to communication.
6. Expect other organisations to do things differently.
7. Give your representatives sufficient freedom to act.
8. Understand and manage power.
9. Make things happen by facilitation and direct action.
10. Assume continual change, do not expect to be wholly in
control and drive it with energy, commitment, skill and
continual nurturing.
EMBRACING > EMPOWERING > INVOLVING > MOBILIZING
(Huxham & Vangen, 2005: Managing to Collaborate: the theory of collaborative advantage.)
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Lord I know, and I know you know I know
this is a drudge’s penance. Only dull scholars
or cowherds maddened with cow-watching
will ever read The Grey Psalter of Antrim.
I have copied it these thirteen years
Waiting for the good bits - High King of the Roads,
Are there any good bits in The Grey Psalter of
Antrim?
(Ian Duhig: Margin Prayer from an Ancient Psalter)