Improving children's services engagement of fathers in child protection: logic model for an organisational development and staff training intervention

Scourfield, Jonathan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6218-8158, Davies, Jeremy, Jones, Kathy and Maxwell, Nina ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3931-7729 2024. Improving children's services engagement of fathers in child protection: logic model for an organisational development and staff training intervention. International Journal on Child Maltreatment 7 , pp. 607-614. 10.1007/s42448-024-00206-y

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Abstract

There is a long-standing and ongoing problem of practice with at-risk families in child welfare work focusing primarily on mothers and failing to properly engage fathers. The article describes a child welfare innovation from the UK designed to tackle this issue—the ISAFE (Improving Safeguarding through Audited Father-Engagement) intervention, developed by The Fatherhood Institute and The Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE) at Cardiff University and based on two previous separate interventions which had positive initial evaluations. ISAFE combines in-service social work practitioner training with other elements of organisational development to improve the engagement of fathers. Activities targeting organisational culture are case file audits, identification and training of team champions, and a webinar for service leaders. The practitioner training involves both awareness raising about the importance of engaging men and skills development via an introduction to motivational interviewing. ISAFE’s theory of change is summarised in the form of a logic model. Limitations of the intervention and its evaluation are discussed.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education) Children’s Social Care Research and Development Centre (CASCADE)
Publisher:	Springer
ISSN:	2524-5236
Funders:	Foundations
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 July 2024
Date of Acceptance:	15 June 2024
Last Modified:	03 Dec 2024 13:19
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/170969

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