It explores why chronologies are helpful, offers practical tips on completing them and includes tools to promote reflection and analysis of the information gathered. This guide aims to support social workers and their managers to navigate these complexities by providing an overview of the process that should be applicable to a range of contexts. The pressure of day-to-day practice means that they are completed in different circumstances, with some updated on a day-to-day basis, with others collated retrospectively from case notes going back months, or even years. Guidance regarding their completion has sometimes been contradictory, from Lord Laming’s (2003) recommendation following the death of Victoria Climbie that they should be ‘comprehensive’, to the updated guidance by Sir James Munby (2013) that they should provide a ‘succinct summary’. This is compounded by the reality that they need to meet multiple purposes, from evidencing threshold decisions for court to sharing elements of a child’s life story with foster carers. Social workers need to decide what constitutes a ‘significant event’ and how much detail to include.
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