The Innovate Project

The Innovate Project | Researching youth, risk and complexity Exploring how services are addressing extra-familial risks experienced by young people; building new knowledge about the processes of innovation in social care.

You can read more about the Innovate Project here theinnovateproject.co.uk, look at our latest resources here theinnovateproject.co.uk/resources/ and access all our articles and e-books here theinnovateproject.co.uk/about-the-pr...

Our paper is rooted in a 3year Institutional Ethnography of 6 #socialcare sites in the UK, showing that service-level #innovation alone is not enough to transform practice and outcomes for young people - by
@carlenefirmin.bsky.social @michellelefevre.bsky.social @klanghoff.bsky.social

A line in the sand: Moving from surface improvement to foundational shifts to develop effective responses to extra-familial risks and harms This article presents representative accounts from efforts in six social care departments in the UK to use innovation to improve their responses to young p

So proud that our paper has been selected as 'Editor's Choice' in this issue of the British Journal of Social Work. In it, we draw 'A Line in the Sand', challenging policymakers to reform system foundations in order to effectively safeguard young people abused beyond the home doi.org/10.1093/bjsw...

Booking's full for our webinar on new directions in youth safeguarding - sorry! But if you sign up for the Innovate Project mailing list, our next e-newsletter will have a link to the recording for you to watch at your leisure. Sign up here: universityofsussex.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Interested in how to innovate in social care and related settings? Take a look at the latest paper from the Innovate Project - it's free to access!

Creating positive change in children’s social care Encouraging and implementing new practices is helping improve children’s social care systems for vulnerable young people and their families.

We're delighted to share an ESRC impact case of the Innovate Project published by @ukri.org. Interviewing project lead @michellelefevre.bsky.social, the piece describes how the project findings and outputs are helping to change practice in #socialcare and #safeguarding www.ukri.org/who-we-are/h...

Hot off the press! Our new paper challenges social care services to rethink what 'value for money' might mean if it were young people setting the outcome indicators. Open access at doi.org/10.1177/0017.... By @michellelefevre.bsky.social and twitter.com/Lisa_Holmes_...

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The Innovate Project | Researching youth, risk and complexity Exploring how services are addressing extra-familial risks experienced by young people; building new knowledge about the processes of innovation in social care.

The Innovate Project has now jumped ship from the bird place to connect on all matters related to social work and social care innovation and adolescent safeguarding - looking forward to connecting! You can learn more about us at www.theinnovateproject.co.uk and from @michellelefevre.bsky.social