Project 1 Reflect on and Evaluate Your SYP Process
Exercise 1 Reflect on and Evaluate Your Practice Plan, Process and Your Progress.
It has been a difficult journey to manage the requirements for the SYP and to manage my project which now is gaining momentum and has a life of its own. It is far bigger and more important that me or the OCA! SYP has been really good as it has recapped and provided a wide range of resources for me to make use of and I hope this is reflected in my work. I had undertaken many plans and updates and I don’t know if my final version is okay. It has to be for me, a working document in process. It needs to be flexible and adaptable as I hope to be packing in tours not necessarily with the visual images but with the video. If I can’t get it into colleges with Fine Art my contingency will be to show the images in PowerPoint as a prelude to showing the video. I have many elements to my plan but the MA now features in 2027.
I include my final diagram/roadmap. I couldn’t help stick to the theme of snakes and ladders.
The other final piece of good news is that my guides for Open Studios came today. I include my photos below and I created the advert.
It feels good to end on this note and I just hope I have done justice to my work and my video.
Update on my progress with plans for the exhibition and the video.
On 28th September I completed the two week event Somerset Open Studios. The beginning was very slow as the weather was very windy and a lot of rain. A good slow trickle of people helped me raise money to help support the project and for Save the Children. We raised £330. During quiet times I was preparing for my assessment. I had two themes of work that I was showing and informing my visitors about. I talked a lot about Silent Voices and the video. My tutors last report resonated with me as she mentioned about the different ways the film might be used. In the first instance I used my time with visitors to check if they would like to see the film. Most of my visitors were very positive about my work and my intentions. I haven’t yet counted the names up but I have enough local candidates details. I intend to hire a hall and ask for donations. I also decided on extending my efforts to more community engagement and for my exhibition of visual images and the video to be seen in targeted cities. I have booked a room in a community hall in Birmingham. Along with my narrator in the film, Karl and the actress Mandy, we plan to deliver a free training day and through appropriate networking we shall invite all relevant Health and Social Care related personnel and other services such as police personnel. The day is set for 11th November 2025. This is coming at a good time as the newly appointed National Safeguarding panel are trying to improve practice and are endeavouring to see how practice can be improved and information disseminated to those personnel that count and undertake the face to face work. I am attending a Safeguarding webinar on 1st October and this may present opportunities or facilitate who to contact to promote my project.
My project in context with such a very difficult social and political climate is vital. The more information I gather it almost feels like I am coming out of retirement as a social worker. Whatever route I use and even if I don’t get any replies from Universities, it doesn’t matter as long as the images and the video can be seen by the general public and those that work with these vulnerable children and their families. Even if I can’t physically take the real visual images to some venues I can present them in a Power point. What I mustn’t lose sight of is that the video informs the public about reporting concerns they may have about a child and that their identity is protected.
Art for the power of good 