Warwick, Lisa, Beddoe, Liz, Leigh, Jadwiga, Disney, Tom, Ferguson, Harry and Cooner, Tarsem (2023) The power of relationship-based supervision in supporting social work retention: A case study from long-term ethnographic research in child protection. Qualitative Social Work: Research and Practice, 22 (5). pp. 879-898. ISSN 1473-3250
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Abstract
Supervision is a core component of professional support and development in social work. In many settings, and perhaps particularly in children’s services, it is valued as crucial in safe decision-making, practice reflection, professional development and staff support. Research has demonstrated that supervision and staff support also contribute to social worker retention in child welfare services. Drawing on data gathered in a 15-month ethnographic, longitudinal study of child protection work that included observations of supervision, we were able to observe the impact of supportive supervisory relationships on social workers’ decision-making about staying in their current workplace. This article presents a single case that demonstrates the potential impact of effective relationship-based supervision on retention and calls for a more humane approach to social work supervision against dominant managerial themes that have increasingly burdened the profession.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Additional Information: | Funding information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by the Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N012423/1). |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Supervision, Child protection, Ethnography, Case study, Staff retention, Organisational culture |
| Subjects: | L300 Sociology L700 Human and Social Geography |
| Department: | Faculties > Health and Life Sciences > Social Work, Education and Community Wellbeing |
| Depositing User: | Elena Carlaw |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2022 13:59 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Sep 2023 12:15 |
| URI: | https://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/49567 |
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