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MOVING ON FROM MUNRO

Improving childrens services

Edited by Maggie Blyth

First published in Great Britain in 2014 by

Policy Press University of Bristol 6th Floor Howard House Queens Avenue Clifton Bristol BS8 1SD UK Tel +44 (0)117 331 5020 Fax +44 (0)117 331 5367 e-mail

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ISBN 978 1 44731 568 1 epub
ISBN 978 1 44731 569 8 Kindle

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Contents

Maggie Blyth

Mark Gurrey and Eleanor Brazil

Ray Jones

Chris Wright

Sue White, Kate Morris, Brid Featherstone, Marian Brandon and June Thoburn

Jenny Clifton

Leslie Hicks

Jenny J. Pearce

Charlie Hedges

Michael Preston-Shoot and Martin Pratt

Maggie Blyth

APPG	all-party parliamentary group
CAMHS	Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
CBT	Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
CCG	clinical commissioning group
CEO	chief executive officer
CEOP	Child Exploitation Online Protection Centre
CRCs	community rehabilitation companies
CSE	child sexual exploitation
DCS	director of childrens services
DfE	Department for Education
GCSE	General Certificate of Secondary Education
HR	human resources
HWBs	health and well-being boards
ICS	integrated computer services
LAP	learning action partnership
LMCS	lead member for childrens services
LSCB	local safeguarding children board
MASH	multi-agency safeguarding hub
MST	Multi-systemic Therapy
NECF	National Evaluation of the Childrens Fund
NEET	not in education, employment or training
NESS	National Evaluation of Sure Start
NGOs	non-governmental organisations
NHS	National Health Service
NSPCC	National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
OCC	Office of the Childrens Commissioner
Ofsted	Office for Standards in Education
PSHE	personal, social and health education
RCT	randomised control trial
SCRs	serious case reviews
TCSW	The College of Social Work
UEA	University of East Anglia
UNCRC	United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
VCSE	voluntary, community and social enterprise

Maggie Blyth is the Independent Chair of Hampshire Safeguarding Children Board and the Isle of Wight Safeguarding Children Board. She has held public office as a member of the Parole Board for England and Wales since 2005 and the UK Health Professions Council since 2010. Maggie was a senior civil servant at the Youth Justice Board until 2005, with oversight of policy and practice across all youth justice settings in England and Wales. Her professional background is as a senior manager in social care/probation and previously as a teacher. She has jointly edited five books for Policy Press.

Marian Brandon is Professor of Social Work and Director of the Centre for Research on Children and Families at the University of East Anglia. A qualified social worker, she worked for seven years as a practitioner before taking up an academic post. Her research activity focuses on child protection, childrens views of child protection, family support and interagency working. For over a decade, she has directed national analyses of serious case reviews (SCRs) for the English and Welsh governments. She has also worked on studies for the England Office of the Childrens Commissioner on children and young peoples views of child abuse and child protection and how to improve childrens access to early help. She is currently leading a team evaluating family support as part of the Troubled Families initiative for a number of London boroughs.

Eleanor Brazil is currently Director of Childrens Services in Doncaster. She is a qualified social worker with extensive experience at director level in both adult and childrens services in permanent and interim roles. Her interim work includes the role of Deputy Director in Haringey following the publication of the Peter Connolly SCR, Director of Childrens Services in Leeds while in intervention, Director of Childrens Services in Birmingham for 17 months until April 2012, and Director of Childrens Services in Stoke-on-Trent for a year to assist in its move to a people directorate. She currently chairs the local safeguarding children board in Medway and has been Chair of the Lawn Tennis Association Safeguarding Committee for six years.

Jenny Clifton is Principal Policy Advisor on safeguarding for the Childrens Commissioner for England. She is a qualified social worker and has worked in practice, management and lead policy roles in local government and the voluntary sector, with a focus chiefly on children. She has held posts as university lecturer in social work and social policy and has published on childrens rights and on domestic violence. Jennys current work concerns the promotion of childrens and young peoples rights to protection, their perspectives on the child protection process, and how they might be enabled to access help at an earlier stage.

Brid Featherstone is Professor of Social Work at the Open University. She qualified as a social worker in the early 1980s and has extensive experience of researching service users perspectives of child protection systems. Her book with Sue White and Kate Morris, Re-imagining child protection: Towards humane social work with families , is published by Policy Press in April 2014.

Mark Gurrey is currently working as Director of Improvement for Doncaster Borough Council. He worked as an interim Deputy and Assistant Director in Haringey immediately post-Baby Peter and then in Birmingham and Kent. He is also the Independent Chair of Wiltshire County Council Safeguarding Improvement Board. He is a qualified social worker and started his career as a social worker in Haringey before moving into management in Newham, Hackney, Thurrock and Barnet and then entering the world of interim management.

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