Why does systemic supervision support practitioners’ practice more effectively with children and families?

The importance of supervision for social work practice is widely accepted. This paper focuses on one type supervision: systemic group or “systemic supervision”. Systemic generally a group-based, multi-disciplinary model service delivery that aims to therapeutically with the whole family. Central this use systemically-informed supervision. has been shown impact positively quality direct families, but what it about supports frontline practitioners more skillfully? based interviews 49 staff across five children’s services departments in UK. It identifies key features and explores why workers think developing shared understandings risk children them intervene effectively families contact services. These findings contribute growing body knowledge shaping function within child family work.