Appreciative Inquiry: Practice Tool (2025)
Introduction
This tool offers a starting point for understanding Appreciative Inquiry in service delivery, evaluation and improvement. It explores how Appreciative Inquiry can be used by a range of partners, including people drawing on care and support, families, carers, practitioners, managers and leaders. The resource offers learning which can be applied across children's, families' and adults' services.
Professional Standards
PQS:KSS - Analysis, decision-making, planning and review | The role of supervision | Organisational context | Developing excellent practitioners | Shaping and influencing the practice system | Purposeful and effective social work | Performance management and improvement | Lead and govern excellent practice | Creating a context for excellent practice | Designing a system to support effective practice | Developing excellent practitioners | Supervision, critical analysis and reflection | Organisational context | Professional ethics and leadership | Influencing and governing practice excellence within the organisation and community | Developing confident and capable social workers | Assuring good social work practice and development | Performance management and improvement
CQC - Responsive | Well-led
PCF - Critical reflection and analysis | Contexts and organisations | Professional leadership
RCOT - Develop intervention | Evaluate impact | Demonstrate quality
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Appreciative Inquiry in child protection - identifying and promoting good practice and creating a learning culture: Practice Tool (2014)
This Practice Tool provides a starting point for practitioners, managers, supervisors and Local Safeguarding Children's Boards (LSCB) in understanding Appreciative Inquiry and its potential as a tool in service evaluation and promoting and implementing service improvement.