‘Professor Eileen Munro turned decades of inadequate child protection on its head with one simple question: are we helping or hindering the front line?
In this episode, she reflects on the successes – and revealing failures – of her review into child protection. Eileen covers a lot of ground in a short space of time. It is fascinating.
Talking points:
Centralised processes can’t protect children, and this centralisation is an unavoidable consequence of the current state of governance
How child protection can work much better, when the system is re-aligned to its purpose
Key role of feedback, service sampling, education, and the news media.
In our commentary Ed and I pick up on these and other points, specifically the governmental conditions that allowed for success, and especially: leaders believing they have grasped the systemic nature of necessary change, when in reality they haven’t. What to do?’
Show notes:
The Munro Review into Child Protection ( PDF 1.8mb )
Eileen Munro:
LSE
https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/people/Emeritus-Visiting/Professor-Eileen-Munro
The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/eileen-munro
Detail on what child protection actually entails (podcast)
(listener alert – not for the feint-hearted):
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07ffxtr
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