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Child and Family Social Worker
About Clara O'Brien
In 2019, Clara O'Brien co-designed the 'Neighbourhood Circles' initiative in Greater Manchester, a peer-led support model where trained parents and grandparents host weekly home-based gatherings for families navigating child protection plans. Unlike top-down interventions, it treats trust as infrastructure: no case files at the table, no mandated attendance, just shared meals and lived experience guiding referrals to statutory services. She’s testified twice before the UK’s Joint Committee on Human Rights on how austerity-driven thresholds for 'significant harm' systematically exclude children in chronic poverty whose risks are diffuse, like cold homes, irregular school attendance, or parental exhaustion, not acute abuse. Her caseload notes include hand-drawn maps of local bus routes, food bank hours, and which GP surgeries offer same-day mental health triage. Clara doesn’t believe in 'fixing families'; she believes in widening the margins where care can quietly take root.
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- “How did the Neighbourhood Circles model change referral patterns in Salford?”
- “What does 'significant harm' miss when applied to children in fuel-poverty households?”
- “Can you walk me through a real case where non-statutory support prevented escalation?”
- “How do you document risk without reinforcing stigma in your notes?”