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This talk by Dr Kresta M. Sørensen (University of Copenhagen) will focus on child participation. It will explore the difficulties in ensuring child participation in statutory case work from different perspectives with special focus on the children’s’ perspective. She will present stop-motion films about how children view their meetings with social workers. The films were produced as part of a research project on children in foster care. The data were collected using panels of children at the age of 10-13 years. Dr Sørensen will describe different methodological approaches to ensure child participation and discuss the Lundy model in relation to how the child panels were conducted.

This event is part of Contemporary issues and debates in social work education, research and practice.

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Dr Kresta M. Sørensen from the University of Copenhagen presented the findings of her research investigating the perspectives of children in foster care on the their engagement with social workers. Her presentation included two stop-motion films created with children in foster care to describe their experiences watched by over 100 social professionals and researchers.

This webinar was part of the series Contemporary issues and debates in social work education, research and practice presented by the NIHR Policy Research Unit in Health and Social Care Workforce.

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Mary Baginsky

Reader in Social Care

Carl Purcell

Research Fellow

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