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The impact of more flexible assessment practices in response to the Munro review of child protection: emerging findings from the trials

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posted on 2015-07-31, 08:11 authored by Emily R. Munro, Clare Lushey
The Munro Review of Child Protection recommended reducing statutory guidance on safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children in order to promote local autonomy and increase the scope for practitioners to exercise their professional judgement. Proposed measures included removing the distinction between initial and core (in-depth) assessments and associated (fixed statutory) timescales for their completion. Between March and September 2011 the Secretary of State for Education issued formal directions to eight local authorities (Westminster, Knowsley, Cumbria, Hackney, Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Wandsworth and Islington) to test more flexible assessment practices. The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre (CWRC) was commissioned by the Department for Education (DfE) to undertake a piece of rapid response work between April and July 2012 to independently evaluate the effect that the flexibilities granted to the trial authorities have had on practice and service responses to safeguard children from harm. A mixed methodology was adopted to investigate the effectiveness of conflating the initial and core assessments into one assessment and the possible effect of the local determination of timescales for assessments and when the initial child protection conference should be held following a strategy discussion.

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Department for Education

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  • Social Sciences

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  • Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies

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  • Centre for Child and Family Research

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MUNRO, E.R. and LUSHEY, C., 2012. The impact of more flexible assessment practices in response to the Munro review of child protection: emerging findings from the trials. London: Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre, 46pp.

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Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre.

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

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2012

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This is a report. The Childhood Wellbeing Research Centre is an independent research centre with funding from the Department for Education. It is a partnership between the Thomas Coram Research Unit (TCRU) and other centres at the Institute of Education, the Centre for Child and Family Research (CCFR) at Loughborough University and the Personal Social Services Research Unit (PSSRU) at the University of Kent.

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