Leadership

Growing Up Neglected: A Multi-Agency Response To Older Children

This joint report, from inspectorates Ofsted, HMI Constabulary and Fire & Rescue Services (HMICFRS), the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and HMI Probation, examines the multi-agency response to older children who are living with neglect. Leadership Briefing 12.11(143)

The joint report from inspectors says professionals often focus on the behaviour of older children, losing sight of their back stories and that they are vulnerable and in need of affection and support. They looked at how older children were treated by social, education, health services, and police, probation and offending teams.

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Transforming youth services

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Leadership

Forced Marriage: Prevalence and Service Response

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Leadership

Safeguarding Children Across Services

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      string(5666) "The big common themes across communities, schools, the voluntary sector and public services involve complex issues regarding the challenges of creating a safe environment and local communities and services systems that enhances life chances.I have been working on applying learning about new data analysis tools and approaches using ‘system dynamics’ to make predictions and ‘artificial machine learning and optimisation’ to reveal hidden patterns and opportunities and utilise every drop of knowledge and data to get things right and adapt when necessary. 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Improving Outcomes with Intelligent Data Management

6 Feb 2019