Seminar with Dr Mary Baginsky
Parents with a learning disability in contact with adult and children's services: how we get things wrong too often
On Wednesday 23rd October the Centre hosted a seminar with Dr Mary Baginsky, Reader in Social Care at the Health and Social Care Research Unit of King’s College London. Mary shared the findings from a recently completed NIHR School of Social Care funded project on the support available to parents with a learning disability when their children are removed following childcare proceedings. Aspects of the project were co-produced with the parents’ group at the Elfrida Society.
Parents with a learning disability are often over-represented in the Child Protection System and are disproportionately likely to have their children removed from their care. The seminar offered practitioners, policy makers and academics an opportunity to discuss the learning from the project on social workers’ engagement with parents with a learning disability and if, how and when they provide them with support.
Mary and her colleagues have produced two animations, translating the findings from the project into practice suggestions for social work and legal professionals. The animations can be viewed by clicking on the links below.
An animation for social workers produced by Mary in partnership with Pause (Southwark) and Mencap Cymru: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dyIjEGcFYnY
An animation aimed at lawyers that was produced with Mencap Cymru, Celestine Greenwood, a barrister in Exchange Chambers and Amy Harrison, an independent intermediary: https://youtu.be/mdsycNK93kY