Devolved Budgets - discussing discretionary spending by social workers in children's social care

Thank you for listening to the What Works for Children’s Social Care podcast. The host for this episode was Dr Michael Sanders, Chief Executive of What Works for Children’s Social Care. Michael was joined by Belinda Christian, Director of Practice at What Works for Children’s Social Care, and David Westlake, Research Fellow at the Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) at Cardiff University. If you would like to find more about our pilot study looking at Devolved Budgets in three local authorities in England, you can find the reports here: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-report/devolved-budget-an-evaluation-of-pilots-in-three-local-authorities-in-england/ You can hear more from the social workers, young people and researchers involved in the project in this short film: https://youtu.be/PeCw-gnxNPM Michael and David have written blogs exploring the findings and next steps in more detail. You can find them here: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/blog/autonomy-and-prudence-the-findings-from-our-devolved-budgets-pilot/ https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/blog/providing-social-workers-with-discretionary-budgets-resulted-in-creative-solutions-to-help-children-young-people-and-families-new-study-finds/ If you have any questions, comments or suggestions for upcoming topics, please get in touch by emailing [email protected] You can also follow us on Twitter @whatworksCSC