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No time to think: protecting the reflective space in children's services
Author(s) -
Jones Jocelyn,
Gallop Les
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
child abuse review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.569
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1099-0852
pISSN - 0952-9136
DOI - 10.1002/car.774
Subject(s) - agency (philosophy) , safeguard , child protection , space (punctuation) , reflective practice , welfare , argument (complex analysis) , context (archaeology) , action (physics) , public relations , child care , sociology , psychology , political science , pedagogy , medicine , law , nursing , computer science , social science , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology , operating system
Over the past few years, first line managers in child care have faced mounting pressure on their time from both the national performance management agenda and the professional demands associated with the Framework for the Assessment of Children in Need and their Families and Working Together to Safeguard Children: A Guide to Inter‐Agency Working to Safeguard and Promote the Welfare of Children. This paper briefly discusses the policy context surrounding this period of unprecedented change and focuses on the potential erosion of the reflective space in supervision as first line managers struggle to cope with the ever‐increasing expectations. An argument is made for the creative use of multi‐agency action learning/ research projects within the workplace to supplement individual supervision and promote reflective multi‐agency child care practice; some examples of successful projects are given. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.