Seminar
Towards Effective Professional Practice in Child Protection:
Key Learning from Other Countries
Synopsis
The lecture begins with a caution about taking ideas from other countries – you need to adapt them to your culture and values – or possibly reject them. There are a number of very diverse ways that the state-family relationship is conceived and this influences how the child protection system is shaped.
In looking at the lessons to consider, the main topics covered are how the uncertainty in the work is managed, how workers are supported in working with families, how the services are managed and the oversight mechanisms and how the effectiveness of the service is evaluated.
12 November 2024, Tuesday
9:30AM – 12:00PM
*Registration starts at 8.45am and
breakfast will be provided.
Lifelong Learning Institute
Event Hall 1-1 & 1-2
Enquiries
Email to swkseminar@nus.edu.sg
Speaker
Professor Eileen Munro
Emeritus Professor of Social Policy,
Department of Social Policy,
The London School of Economics and Political Science
Eileen Munro is an Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy.
A background in both philosophy and social work has shaped her research interests in reasoning skills in child protection, leading to an interest in how organisational cultures help or hinder good quality reasoning and practice. Understanding of the complex causal processes in working with families has triggered a critical interest in the philosophy of social science underlying the evidence-based policy and practice movements and a new focus on studying the mechanisms by which change is achieved. With her colleague Professor Nancy Cartwright she is currently undertaking a 3 year study: ‘Providing credible evidence for singular causal claims’, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.