Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care

Edited by Michael Sanders, David Westlake and Vanessa Hirneis

in Books from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This insightful book explores the application of randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to children’s social care and child protection. Expert authors analyse the key benefits, alongside criticisms and limitations of adopting experimental methods in this context, outlining lessons learned alongside avenues for future development.

Keywords: Evidence; Social Work; Randomised Controlled Trials; Social Care; Public Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035327140
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Chapters in this book:

Introduction: what are experiments, and why are they important?

Michael Sanders, David Westlake and Vanessa Hirneis

‘That's all very well, but if a child is at risk, you can stick your randomisation up your ****’: a brief history of trials in social work and UK children's social care

David Westlake

RCTs, the What Works centre and children's social care

Donald Forrester

The international evidence on Family Group Conferences

Jonathan Scourfield, Sophie Wood and Melissa Meindl

Reflections on running a large randomised controlled trial in children's social care

Sarah Taylor, Emily Blackshaw and Hannah Lawrence

Lessons learned from 25 years of intervention research: the Fostering Healthy Futures Program

Heather Taussig

Signs of Safety – what is it, and what did the evidence say?

Lorna Stabler

When and how can we find causation without randomisation?

Michael Sanders, Julia Ellingwood and Vanessa Hirneis

Motivational interviewing in Islington: our first, worst, and most eye-opening trial

Donald Forrester and David Westlake

Missing what matters for practice

Bernie Brown, Chris McLoughlin and Wilson Litchmore

Go big or go home: trialling the Social Workers in Schools programme during a pandemic

David Westlake and Verity Bennett

Safeguarding the safeguards – more support needed, but how?

Lucy Stokes and Johnny Runge

Subgroup effects in education trials: the case of young people with a social worker

Michael Sanders, Alix Leroy, Chris Mitchell and Jake Anders

Studying social work practice in context

Eileen Munro and Mike Caslor

Null effects in trials – a worked example of a maltreatment prevention trial

Michael Robling and Rebecca Cannings-John

Equalities and trials in CSC

Nimal Jude and Lisa Zaranyika

Looking to the future – concluding thoughts

David Westlake, Michael Sanders and Vanessa Hirneis

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