Changing practice: the possibilities and limits for reshaping social work practice

Since 2010 the United Kingdom has witnessed a number of initiatives that shift away from reliance on performance management to improve social work with children and families, towards a renewed interest in practice models. This study reports on the evaluation of a local government programme in England to introduce and embed systemic family practice through the roll out of intensive training to social workers and frontline managers. It was anticipated through the programme that child protection social workers would undertake more direct work with families and build more positive relationships, resulting in a fall in the number of child protection plans and children experiencing repeat periods of care. The evaluation adopted a mixed method approach encompassing an online survey of social workers, interviews with team managers and family members, a case audit and statistical analysis of local level metrics. It found limited employment of systemic family practice or improvement due to the programme. Adopting the 7 S framework, this study examines the barriers to and facilitators of successful change and identifies generic considerations for change programmes in child protection social work

L'INVALIDIT\uc0 DELLE DELIBERE CONSILIARI DI S.P.A. NEL QUADRO DEL SISTEMA DELLE INVALIDIT\uc0

This dissertation examines the rules governing the invalidity of resolutions adopted by boards of directors. In the system that has emerged from certain legislative developments, it identifies a new system of rules on invalidity which, together with the rules governing invalid meeting resolutions, constitutes a special system differing from the rules governing the invalidity of contracts. Within this special system, the dissertation then identifies a single macro-category of invalidity, containing a graduated scale of cases according to the type of flaw and decision-making body involved. In light of these conclusions, the dissertation then goes on to examine the actual scope of the new provisions reflecting the legislator\u2019s search for a fair solution that balances the harm suffered by a company when a resolution is challenged and that suffered by its shareholder or, more widely, by legal relationships when a flawed resolution remains in place. The dissertation finds \u2013 with regard to resolutions adopted by boards of directors \u2013 that the protection offered by the rules is not entirely effective, since they do not cover all possible flaws and do not allow shareholders to challenge flawed board resolutions