Imagine foster care that improves the outcomes and the experience for the child because their placement is created and sustained through a close partnership between the carers, parents, grandparents, aunts and uncles. This approach also increases the likelihood of successful and safe reunification. Is this a fantasy? Actually, it is not only possible it is already happening.
For more information and registration https:// web.cvent.com/event/e7d15afc-f2b1-4901- ab02-72ce8a401899/websitePage:ad184207- d7a3-4448-837e-f74dfa457683
For full details of Andrew and Anna’s workshop follow the Global Gathering link to Skill Building Institutes
Join Professor Andrew Turnell and Swedish Social Worker and Foster Carer Anna Strömberg in a three-hour skill building, online workshop to hear examples of Belonging- focused Foster Care and learn about the professional processes and practices that support this approach.
This participatory workshop is part of the three- day online Global Gathering for the Future of Child Welfare, October 6 to 8, 2026.
Culture change is the key to sustainability
Sticking to and iteratively refining the pathway plan to achieve what your organisation wants is HARD WORK.
Sustainability is all about doing the hard work to embed learning methods and processes continuously refining the plan within daily routines across your whole organisation.
The Problem
In children’s services we operate in a highly complex, often crazy system doing precious work for vulnerable children. We know we’re not doing things well enough and sometimes we can feel like we’re lost in a maze we can’t get out of. Under this pressure, we too often get caught in a reactive cycle of piecemeal change partially tackling one thing then taking on the next. This is dispiriting, a bit like changing the wallpaper and cushions, polishing the cutlery and hoping our unstable home located in an earthquake zone will be renewed into a place of safety
The Solution
Sustainable children’s services change, whether working with families or the whole organisation, requires:
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Whole system thinking (change is circular, never linear in a complex system)
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Clear purpose grounded in goals everyone buys into (this is the bedrock of simplicity that resolves complexity)
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Clear pathway plan for success
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Everyone sharing the load to enact the detail of the plan as best they can
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Tracking outcomes as feedback everyone sees and can understand
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Careful analysis of success achieved in face of challenge
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Building on your successes to refine the plan
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Keep on going! Change is a lifetime infinity project
Our services
Tailored whole system support through training and consultancy in practice, learning and implementation methods that equips your organisation to align itself to the casework practice delivering the outcomes your organisation wants.
The TurnellPlus Offer
We will walk alongside your people across the whole organisation for the shortest time necessary to establish practice, learning and implementation methods that trigger and sustain the outcome changes for children and families your organisation wants.
Upcoming Events
Working with ‘denied’ child abuse: the Resolutions approach September 2026Thu, 03 SeptOnline Workshop- Working with ‘denied’ child abuse: the Resolutions approach October 2026Mon, 19 OctOnline Workshop