Caroline Boyd

About

Caroline Boyd is an independent social worker with over twenty-five years' experience working with children and families. Her practice commenced following her Master's Degree in Social Work at University College Dublin in 2001. Her extensive practice experience includes child protection, family support, children in care, fostering, adoption, children in residential care and special care.

As a Senior Practitioner, Caroline held the more complex cases that were before the courts. She was involved in the induction of new staff, training university students, and participated in four HIQA audits. In her role as a social work team leader for children in foster care, her experience broadened to the complex management of those providing a frontline service to children.

Caroline has extensive experience in preparing court reports for childcare proceedings and private family law matters, and strives to provide solution-focused assessments that ensure the best interests of children and their families. Her practice is deeply embedded in child development theory and children's rights, and she uses play-based engagement to build relationships with children and to learn about their voice in a child-centred manner.

Caroline's engagement with children is child-led and child-friendly; she uses play to interact with children and to learn about their world, and has engaged in years of training and development to learn age-appropriate skills to communicate with children about elements of their lives that are difficult to express verbally. Her practice is built firmly on the belief that working relationships with children, families and other professionals are key to providing optimal support. Caroline's practice is solution-focused, person-centred and child-centred. She is CORU registered and Garda vetted.