Child protection

This evidence summary looks at how schools can support early intervention to prevent children and young people from entering care.

Explores how newly qualified social workers can be supported in their first year, with a focus on effective supervision.

Summarises evidence relating to the effectiveness of women specific interventions in addressing complex needs and the role they may play as preventative strategies in children's services.

Explores the evidence around integrated assessment in children's services, including children's and families' experiences of the assessment process, good practice, electronic information systems, data protection, privacy and the potential impacts of surveillance.

Identifies evidence around good practice approaches to investigating child sexual abuse that may minimise harm or distress to children and non-abusing caregivers.

Uses the evidence base to explore how we can learn from parents whose children have been referred, in order to avoid causing harm and provide the best and most helpful support.

Examines how experiences of domestic abuse and social work intervention in cases of child protection could inform practice in Scotland.