Fulcrum Family Services
Facilitating Positive Change
Consultancy Support & Research
Fulcrum Family Services can provide consultancy in respect to research, with particular specialisms in the area of Family Group Conferencing (FGC), Systemic Practice, and the engagement of service-users.
The Director is currently a freelance research consultant to Birmingham University providing practice and practical support on adult family group conferences in the The National Institute for Health and Care Research study on Family Group Conferencing in adult social care and mental health: exploring how it works and what difference it can make in people's lives.
The Director is currently co-authoring and co-editing a Good Practice Guidance on Adult FGCs, and an Adult FGC Service Starter Toolkit. She was a regular facilitator during the twice annual UK Adult FGC Practice Exchange for several years.
The Director was also a member of the Advisory Board for Coram’s randomised controlled trial of FGCs. The role of the Advisory Board was to provide independent and external advice to Coram’s Impact and Evaluation Team, who are responsible for evaluating the study, including the creation of the randomised control trial, process evaluation of FGCs at pre-proceedings stage. This was commissioned as part of What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care and Department for Education Supporting Families: Investing in Practice Programme.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, the Director was busy supporting FGC Services around the UK by assisting managers in gaining the tools, skills, and knowledge of good practice to work remotely. She spearheaded a guidance involving Social Distanced and Hybrid (those that have a virtual video conferencing element) FGCs as an accumulation of two consultations involving over 50 FGC coordinators and managers from 15 local authority FGC Services, two private companies and a Consortium. The Guidance has been peer reviewed by three further FGC Managers. This work was later published.
Please contact us to arrange a meeting to discuss your particular needs.
Publications:
Vincent, TK (2024) 'Class without the tea' The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Magazine: Context. Issue 192, Pages 2-6.
This article is about creating curiosity about class. My musings on the origins and definitions of class, its influence in today’s society, and its implications for therapeutic practice as a colonised Hong Kongese British woman.
Vincent, TK (2023) '“Normal” is a setting on a washing machine, not a person' The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Magazine: Context. Issue Issue 186, Page 13-16.
A discussion about disability in terms of professional models, intersectionality, and representation. There are also some suggestions for good practice.
Vincent, TK (2022) 'A Rebuttal to Mark Hurst's Counter-Narrative' The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Magazine: Context. Issue 181, Page 47.
A rebuttal response to Hurst's counter-narrative to my Shoes and stones: A human rights perspective on puberty blockers article.
Vincent, TK (2022) 'Shoes and stones: A human rights perspective on puberty blockers' in The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Magazine: Context. Issue 180, pp. 25-27.
This article is a discussion of the consequences of the judicial review of Bell vs. Tavistock in December [2020] England and Wales High Court (EWHC) 3274 (Admin), Case No: CO/06/2020, the Good Law Project case of AB vs. Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation [2021] EWHC 741 (Fam), Case No. FD21P00063, and the appeal of [2021] EWCA Civ 1363 in respect of the ability of young people and children to consent to puberty blockers as a form of treatment for body dysmorphia and potential transgender transitions post-18-years of age. This article highlights good practice for therapists and social workers.
Vincent, TK (2021), 'A reflection on the lessons learned from virtual Family Group Conferences' in Research in Practice (article now archived). November 2021.
Sharing collective learning in respect to Family Group Conferences during Covid19 since the first Research in Practice article.
Vincent, TK (2021) 'Creative use of personalised interventive interviewing reflexive questions' in The Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice Magazine: Context. Issue 175, pp. 45-46.
Sharing good practice in respect to creatively engaging young people, particularly those on the autistic spectrum by using their interests as a vehicle for intervention from a position of curiosity.
Vincent, TK (2021) 'In Focus: Gaming is Social Work' in Professional Social Work: British Association of Social Work Magazine. February. pp. 27.
Sharing good practice in respect to creatively engaging young people, particularly those on the autistic spectrum by using their interests as a vehicle for intervention from a position of curiosity.
Vincent, TK (2000), 'Delivering online and socially distanced Family Group Conferences – sharing learning from Harrow' in Research in Practice (article now archived). Sept 2020.
A blog and Good Practice Guidance in respect to FGCs during and after the Covid19 pandemic.