1. Skills improve outcomes

This episode features Professor Donald Forrester who is Professor of Child and Family Social Work at Cardiff University, where he leads the CASCADE Centre for Children’s Social Care Research and Development.

We discuss research he conducted which explores the relationship between practitioner skills and outcomes for children and families. We also talk about randomised controlled trials in social work, which are difficult to conduct and widely misunderstood in the sector. The full text of the paper we discuss can be downloaded here:

Forrester, D., Westlake, D., Killian, M., Antonopolou, V., McCann, M., Thurnham, A., Thomas, R., Waits, C., Whittaker, C. and Hutchison, D. (2019) ‘What Is the Relationship between Worker Skills and Outcomes for Families in Child and Family Social Work?’, The British Journal of Social Work, 49(8), 2148-2167.

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