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

这项建议旨在提高最初由澳大利亚人权委员会REACT trove资助的知识交流的价值和更广泛的利益。Trove是一个数字化的记忆盒，允许孩子们将故事附加到他们的珍贵物品上，并通过他们的珍贵物品控制他们的生活故事的讲述，这是由沃森为收养儿童制作的生活故事书所支撑的。最初的REACT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。该项目提供了一个积极的迹象，表明这类技术可能具有变革潜力。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实践及其在支持儿童使用trove构建自己的身份叙事方面的作用产生影响。它还强调了围绕这些解决方案的主要关切，即安全和负担能力。Trove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，但要让他们购买和使用它，需要让该部门更好地了解它所提供的价值。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最具挑战性的儿童社会关怀空间中发挥作用，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至关重要。因此，该提案将新的学术伙伴关系（与计算机科学和工业设计）和新的部门伙伴关系（桑葚Bush School和布里斯托儿童和家庭服务）与现有的部门合作伙伴Coram和创意合作伙伴Studio Meineck相结合。该合作伙伴关系将专注于解决原型的已知挑战，并进一步了解该行业的需求和未来采用这种基于技术的干预措施的路线。这种智能将使创意合作伙伴能够推进原型并将其定位在社会护理市场中。该提案还得到了哈德利信托基金的实物捐赠以及通过该团队与哈德利中心--世界知名的收养和寄养研究中心--的联系提供的学术和部门具体知识的支持。这些合作伙伴关系将不会通过任何其他融资机制来实现，并代表了一个无与伦比的机会，可以将技术嵌入该行业，并积极增强创意合作伙伴将宝藏解决方案推向市场的雄心。该提案的目标是：- 支持接受照顾的儿童记录其幼儿期的故事和记忆，并安全地保存有意义的物品-支持儿童宣传其故事，并在他们愿意的情况下与其收养家庭或照顾者沟通和分享这一点-支持社会工作者和护理组织最好地支持儿童照顾-创造一个可持续的商业模式，并确保解决方案的吸收这些目标将通过6个并行的工作包与以用户为中心的设计和合作生产原则的工作基础：理解系统，映射网络和利益相关者的需求;发展生活故事工作中的技术的学术理由;共同设计的数字干预开发;用户试验和分析;部门参与活动;开发和扩展基于证据的业务计划，包括上市途径。有一些计划的产出：一个可扩展的、可维护的、安全的和可试用的原型;一个专门记录trove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trove的成年人工具包;一个政策简报;在布里斯托举行一次部门研讨会;在弃婴博物馆或Coram总部举行一次联合部门参与活动。

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.