Workshop on Child Protection 

Workshop on Child Protection is an event for an invited group of Social Work Managers in the North East. 

This group meeting anticipates the publication of a new Cambridge University Press book, Causal Processes and their Warrant: A Practical Guide by Eileen Munro, Nancy Cartwright and John Pemberton. It aims to reconvene the group of child-protection social work managers (or their successors) in the North-East to meet again with child protection expert Prof Eileen Munro (LSE) and CHESS researchers interested in better implementation of the Signs of Safety child protection programme.

The workshop is funded by an AHRC grant called Providing Credible Evidence for Singular Causal Claims on better policy evaluation and prediction, with Signs of Safety implementation as a case study. 

The meeting with the social work managers informs researchers to help them design a short, user-friendly guide available in paper and online about how better to evidence what it will take in a new location to successfully implement Signs of Safety (and other new programmes similarly requiring structural change). The first draft of this guide has been published in the CHESS Working Paper series.