Today I attended the GIRFEC\/Signs of Safety (SoS) event I mentioned in my last blog. \u00a0Terry Murphy was interesting, down to earth and inspirational. \u00a0He talked about the core principles of SOS and different ways to implement the approach, including a systems wide implementation. \u00a0Sean Rafferty (Service Manager) talked about how we were implementing SoS; Carol Bathgate (Child Protection Manager) gave a case example of a SoS case conference; Shaun Thomas (from our partner agency, Children 1st) showed examples of the 3 houses – a very powerful tool to get children’s views; and then I said\u00a0a bit about the evaluation I did last year and this project.<\/p>\n
Shaun, Carol and I were very nervous, \u00a0and all have stinking colds so we took our minds off the impending presentation by trying to decide which of us was to blame for infecting the others. \u00a0Of course, we decided it must have been one of our colleagues that was not present!<\/p>\n
Alison (Director of IRISS) was there and I was delighted to introduce her to Terry. \u00a0He was really interested in IRISS and said he thought it was a great idea – and very innovative (but IRISS is the Institute for Innovation, after all) for a research organisation to have a practitioner in post.<\/p>\n
How did it go? \u00a0There were representatives from around 15 authorities I think. \u00a0Great sigh of relief, we got lots of positive feedback and people even stayed after lunch for the afternoon session! \u00a0What more can I say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today I attended the GIRFEC\/Signs of Safety (SoS) event I mentioned in my last blog. \u00a0Terry Murphy was interesting, down to earth and inspirational. \u00a0He talked about the core principles of SOS and different ways to implement the approach, including a systems wide implementation. \u00a0Sean Rafferty (Service Manager) talked about how we were implementing SoS; … Continue reading What a day!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.researchunbound.org.uk\/planningcp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}