SHiFT IN ACTION
WHERE ARE WE?
To date we have launched eight SHiFT Practices since 2021, and there are currently six in operation, each tailored to meet local needs and priorities. This means that each Practice has a slightly different character, though all work to a common Framework.
SHiFT Practices are ‘insider-outsiders’, and are able to be alongside and part of the organisations that host them while at the same time retaining their SHiFT identity.
This enables them to contribute fresh perspectives while learning from the experiences of operating as part of different Host Organisations.
THE HOW OF PRACTICE
SHiFT is scaling high impact ‘insider-outsider’ Practices across the UK, with the aim of demonstrating that it is possible for practice, including within statutory services, to be delivered differently to secure better, long term, safeguarding, public protection, and fiscal outcomes.
Through practice, and evidence of its impacts, we seek to influence policy and practice locally, regionally, and nationally so that SHiFT becomes business as usual within existing teams and structures. Our aim is to become the way of working with vulnerable adolescents across all services relevant to their lives.
SHiFT uses the Breaking Cycles ingredients to inform all aspects of its systemic, anti-racist and anti-oppressive practice.
BREAKING CYCLES
SHiFT uses the Breaking Cycles ingredients, a dynamic and evidenced approach to enabling change, created by Sophie Humphreys OBE.
Using the Breaking Cycles ingredients, SHiFT wants every child and young person caught up in, or at risk of, crime, to have one intensive, high-quality, trusting, and persistent professional relationship through which most of their needs are met: a flexible, tailored, and tenacious relationship through which professionals do whatever it takes to set children and young people up for safe and bright futures.
SYSTEMIC IDEAS
Mean that SHiFT looks to create opportunity for change by taking a curious, non-judgmental position, considering relationships, context and the power of stories. We think about ourselves in the work, holding multiple ideas tentatively about what might be happening for children and families.
ANTI RACIST PRACTICE
SHiFT is committed to the elimination of racial discrimination that harms the Black, Brown and Mixed Heritage children and families we work with. We invest in allyship training and collaborate with critical friends to develop and uphold anti-racist practice at all levels, from leadership to daily interactions with children and families.
ANTI OPPRESSIVE PRACTICE
SHiFT thinks carefully about the use and experience of power and we acknowledge the impact of marginalisation on the children and families we get alongside. We take ethical approaches, advocating and aiming high for families to achieve exceptional outcomes.
SHiFT IN PRACTICE
MEET THE PRACTICE TEAMS
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