CYP Now - Reflecting on five years of research and action on children’s social care assessments

Five years ago, we embarked on a journey into children’s health and social care assessments, to gain insight into the processes children and families must go through as local authorities and other bodies decide whether they will provide support and intervention or not.

Dustin Hutchinson is senior policy and public affairs manager at the National Children’s Bureau and visiting researcher at University of Cambridge

We wanted to understand what it is like to experience a social care assessment: what is the impact on children and their families, and how can we improve the process? We wanted our work to be guided by the very children, young people and families who had first-hand experience of health and social care assessments. And we wanted to ensure that the same voices would be heard at the highest levels in government.

This was the thinking behind a collaboration between the National Children’s Bureau (NCB), the University of Cambridge, and the University of Kent, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The project was called Living Assessments.

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