This year I've thought a lot about the ethics of social work responses to extra-familial harm I outline some of these thoughts in my latest paper on Risk Outside of the Home Child Protection pathways available for free via this link www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... In it I argue that🧵 - ThreadSky

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carlenefirmin.bsky.social • 89 days ago

This year I've thought a lot about the ethics of social work responses to extra-familial harm

I outline some of these thoughts in my latest paper on Risk Outside of the Home Child Protection pathways available for free via this link https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17496535.2024.2414963

In it I argue that🧵

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carlenefirmin.bsky.social•89 days ago

1. 'Social work to prevent crime was built on data; social work to meet needs was built on relationships; and both existed in the grey practice space of a ROTH pathway'

carlenefirmin.bsky.social•89 days ago

2. On ROTH pathways 'The state intervenes, not because of parental (in)action but due to harm alone. In these situations, the state's duty, enacted through social work, is to assess the capacity of a partnership (and not solely parents) to create safety and reduce risk'

carlenefirmin.bsky.social•89 days ago

3. 'In the process parents are positioned within this partnership, rather than as the subject of social work intervention. To this extent ROTH Pathways changed the 'rules' of child protection in England.'

carlenefirmin.bsky.social•89 days ago

4. 'Social workers are working in orgs returning to a welfare-ethic value-base AND multi-agency partnerships that never had those goals to begin with. In the absence of unifying practice and policy framework, ROTH pathways remained a site of grey social work in which ethical stress was inevitable.'

carlenefirmin.bsky.social•89 days ago

5. 'ROTH pathways appear to bring us closer to an ethical social work response to extra-familial harm, but responses that change the social conditions in which young people experience harm are rarely seen in the grey' END

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dezholmes1.bsky.social•89 days ago

Really looking forward to reading this

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