Children’s Safeguarding Social Work Practitioners: Remote and Hybrid Working Practices and Experiences, 2022

This data collection is a part of the data from the study 'Becoming agile in local authority children's safeguarding social work services'. It features transcripts of of 41 interviews, conducted with 7 social work practitioners, who each took part in between 4 and 8 interviews, over the course of 6-12 months. Interviews explored practitioners' everyday working practices, interactions with other practitioners, supervisors, and parents and children who used services, and practitioners' experiences of their work. The interviews in this collection happened between March 2021 and July 2022, and includes practitioners describing their practice in the context of social distancing because of Covid restrictions, and later periods where social workers were working using a hybrid of co-present and remote interactions with other practitioners and people who used services. These participants were part of a group of 21 practitioners: other practitioners did not give consent for their data to be shared.