Welcome to The Innovate Project
Exploring how services are addressing extra-familial risks experienced by young people outside of the family home. Building new knowledge about the processes of innovation in social care.
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Joined up lives is a multi-site research project exploring how organisations, systems and professionals can work together more effectively to support children and young people at the intersection of education, social care and criminal justice systems.
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CPD at the University of Sussex
Latest blog posts
Do you agree with us that it’s time for a re-set in how policymakers and services respond to young people at risk of extra-familial harm? This is an issue that has been preoccupying Carlene Firmin, Kristine Langhoff and me for some time now. As you know, through the four years of the Innovate Project, we’ve
Improving social care responses to extra-familial harm: what new practice approaches and systems offer promise? This one-hour webinar will be held as part of Social Work Week and is presented by Michelle Lefevre and Nathalie Huegler (University of Sussex) and Delphine Peace (Durham University). It draws on findings from the Innovate Project to set out
When we began the Innovate Project four years ago in 2019, Michelle Lefevre (the project’s Principal Investigator) gave each of the team members an acorn, inviting us to plant it and see if it would grow. In our end of project meeting on 12 December 2023, Michelle said that she had planted her acorn in
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