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Three Questions Every Social Worker Should Ask Before Writing a Record

Three Questions Every Social Worker Should Ask Before Writing a Record

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In Part 2 of Andy Baker’s conversation with Rebekah Pierre, the discussion moves from how professionals write about children to how care-experienced people can have greater ownership over their own stories. Rebekah explores what genuinely respectful care records could look like, including transparency, the right to reply and recording the ordinary, joyful moments of childhood rather than creating a permanent “lowlight reel”. The conversation also explores Rebekah’s acclaimed anthology Free Loaves on Fridays, which brings together the voices of 100 care-experienced children and adults. Rebekah explains why meaningful participation must go much further than inviting someone with lived experience to deliver an emotional keynote and then sending them home. For social workers, foster carers, residential childcare professionals, teachers, managers and anyone commissioning lived-experience work, this episode provides practical challenges around voice, consent, power, tokenism and psychological safety. In This Episode Andy and Rebekah explore: What respectful and understandable care records should look likeWhy care-experienced people need to know they can access their recordsWriting with children instead of only writing about themVoice notes, videos and different ways children could contributeThe importance of a right to replyWhether children should be able to challenge or contextualise historic recordsWhy records should capture ordinary and positive childhood momentsHow Free Loaves on Fridays came aboutWhy the anthology had a no-rejection policyGiving people control over their own storiesWhat the title Free Loaves on Fridays really meansTokenistic versus meaningful lived-experience participationWhy participation needs support before, during and after an eventTrauma mining and the risks of asking people to repeatedly tell painful storiesPsychological safety, power imbalance and consentThree questions every professional could ask before saving a record Three Key Messages 1. Children should be written with, not simply written about. Transparency, opportunities to contribute and a meaningful right to reply can help restore some ownership over a story that otherwise belongs entirely to professionals. 2. Childhood records need ordinary moments too. First football goals, sleepovers, certificates, jokes and everyday achievements may appear insignificant to a professional, but they can become precious pieces of personal history later in life. 3. Lived experience participation must involve power, not just presence. Inviting someone to tell a difficult story is not genuine co-production if they cannot shape the agenda, set boundaries, control how their story is stored or see what changed afterwards. Why Listen to This Episode? Listen if you: Want children to have a stronger voice in their own recordsCommission speakers or consultants with lived experienceWork in children’s services, fostering or residential careWant to understand the difference between participation and tokenismAre designing conferences, training or consultation involving care-experienced peopleWant to create greater psychological safetyWork with children who worry about what adults are recording about themWant services to move from “nothing about us without us” towards genuine shared power The episode asks an important question: if someone gives you part of their story, what responsibility do you have for how you hold, use and act upon it? Timestamps / Chapters 00:00 - What should professionals think about when writing care records? Writing for the child as well as managers, inspectors and services. 00:22 - Centre the child, not the inspection Why the future reader matters more than we often realise. 02:33 - Children know they are being written about The anxiety of living with an ongoing professional record. 04:07 - Writing with children instead of about them Voice notes, video, written contributions and increasing transparency. 05:20 - The right to reply Why care-experienced people should be able to challenge or add context to their records. 07:25 - Recording the ordinary moments of childhood Football goals, sleepovers, photographs and the things families usually preserve naturally. 09:54 - Free Loaves on Fridays How Rebekah created an anthology centred on care-experienced voices. 10:22 - Why the book had a no-rejection policy Creating space for seasoned writers and first-time contributors alike. 12:39 - The response to the book Why giving 100 people the pen in their own story mattered. 14:08 - Meaningful participation versus tokenism Why lived experience should not be parachuted into an organisation for inspiration and then forgotten. 16:26 - Why is it called Free Loaves on Fridays? Bread, poverty, choice and reclaiming control over how your story is told. 20:27 - Psychological safety for lived-experience contributors Power imbalance, allies, consent, boundaries and the right to leave. 22:18 - If Rebekah could change care records ...
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