Supporting the creative use of technology to improve life story work for vulnerable children- trove as a case example from REACT

这项提议的目的是提高最初由AHRC反应宝库资助的知识交流的价值和更广泛的利益。Trve是一个数字化的记忆盒，它允许孩子们将故事附加到他们的珍贵物品上，并控制通过他们的珍贵物品讲述他们的生活故事，这一点得到了沃森为领养儿童编写的生活故事书的支持。最初的REPACT资金提供了快速开发原型并在一小群儿童中进行测试的机会。该项目给出了一个积极的迹象，表明这种类型的技术可能具有变革的潜力。然而，很明显，这种技术干预的潜力将对社会和家庭工作者的做法以及他们在支持儿童使用TROVE构建自己的身份叙事方面的作用产生影响。它还强调了对这类解决方案的主要关切，即安全性和可负担性。TRUVE有可能为社会上最脆弱的儿童和年轻人带来更积极的成果，但要想购买和使用它所提供的价值，该部门需要更好地了解它。实践中的这种变化需要深入理解物质对象对身份的重要性：技术生活故事解决方案如何在儿童最具挑战性的社会照料空间发挥作用，以及障碍和治疗益处是什么。这就是为什么在这种创意经济伙伴关系中扩大技能和知识是至关重要的。因此，该提案将新的学术伙伴关系(计算机科学和工业设计)和新的部门伙伴关系(桑树灌木学校和布里斯托尔儿童和家庭服务)与现有的部门伙伴Coram和创意伙伴Studio Meineck结合在一起。伙伴关系将侧重于解决原型的已知挑战，并促进我们对部门需求的了解，以及采取这种以技术为基础的干预措施的前进路线。这种智能将使创造性的合作伙伴能够改进原型，并将其定位于社会护理市场。该提议还得到了哈德利信托基金的实物捐赠以及通过该小组与哈德利中心--世界著名的收养和养育研究中心--联合提供的学术和部门具体知识的支持。这些伙伴关系不会通过任何其他筹资机制实现，它们代表着一个无与伦比的机会，可以将技术嵌入该部门，并积极增强创意合作伙伴的雄心，将TRIVE解决方案推向市场。该提案的目标是：-支持被照顾的儿童捕捉他们童年早期的故事和记忆，并安全地保存有意义的对象-支持儿童对他们的故事进行宣传，并在他们希望的情况下与他们的收养家庭或照顾者交流和分享--支持社会工作者和护理组织最好地支持受照顾的儿童--创建一个可持续的商业模式确保采用解决方案。这些目标将通过6个并行工作包实现，这些工作包具有以用户为中心的设计和联合制作原则，这些原则支撑着工作：理解系统、绘制网络图，以及利益攸关方的需求；为生活故事工作中的技术制定学术理由；共同设计数字干预开发；用户试验和分析；部门参与活动；制定和扩展基于证据的商业计划，包括进入市场的路线。计划的产出有：一个可伸缩、可维护、安全和可试用的原型；一个专门介绍宝藏发展和部门认可的短片；一个社会工作者良好做法指南；一个支持儿童使用宝藏的成人工具包；一次政策简报会；在布里斯托尔举行的一个部门研讨会；在铸造博物馆或科拉姆总部举办的一个部门联合活动。

This proposal is intended to enhance the value and wider benefit of the knowledge exchange originally funded under AHRC REACT- trove. Trove is a digitally enabled memory box that allows children to attach stories to their precious objects and to take control over the telling of their life story through their precious objects, underpinned by Watson's work on life story books for adopted children. The original REACT funding provided the opportunity to rapidly develop a prototype and to test it with a small cohort of children. The project gave a positive indication that this type of technology could have transformative potential. However, it became apparent that the potential of such a technological intervention would have an implication on social and family worker practice and their role in supporting children to construct their own identity narrative using trove. It also highlighted key concerns around such solutions, namely security and affordability. Trove has the potential to inform more positive outcomes for society's most vulnerable children and young people but for it to become purchased and used the value it offers needs to be better understood by the sector. Such a change in practice requires an in-depth understandings of the importance of material objects to identity: how the technological life story solution might work in the most challenging social care spaces for children and what the barriers and therapeutic benefits are. This is why it is essential to widen the skills and knowledge in this creative economy partnership. The proposal therefore combines new academic partnerships (with computer science and industrial design) and new sector partnerships (Mulberry Bush School and Bristol Children and Families Services) with existing sector partner Coram and creative partner Studio Meineck. The partnership will focus on addressing the known challenges for the prototype and further our understanding of the sector needs and route forward for this technology based intervention to be adopted. This intelligence will enable the creative partner to progress the prototype and position it within the social care market. The proposal is also supported with an in kind donation from the Hadley Trust and with academic and sector specific knowledge provided through the team's association with the Hadley Centre- world renown research centre on adoption and fostering. These partnerships would not be enabled through any other funding mechanism and represent an unparalleled opportunity to embed the technology within the sector and positively enhance the creative partner's ambition to get the trove solution to market.The aims for the proposal are:-To support children who have been taken into care to capture their early childhood stories and memories and to keep objects of meaning securely -To support children to have advocacy over their story and to communicate and share this with their adopted families or carers where they wish to-To support social workers and care organisations to best support children in care-To create a sustainable business model and ensure the uptake of the solutionThese aims will be addressed by 6 concurrent work packages with user centred design and co-production principles underpinning the work: Understanding system, mapping networks, and stakeholder needs; Developing Academic justification for technologies in life story work; Co-designed digital intervention development; User trials and analysis; Sector engagement event; Developed and extended evidence-based business plan including route to market. There are a number of planned outputs: a scalable, maintainable, secure and trial ready prototype; a short film dedicated to capturing trove developments and sector endorsements; a good practice guide for social workers; a toolkit for adults supporting children's use of trove; a policy briefing; a sector seminar in Bristol; a joint sector engagement event in the Foundling Museum or Coram Headquarters.