It has been a summer of highs and lows for Michael Sanders, executive director of What Works for Children's Social Care - the what works centre formed last year to improve the use of evidence-based practice in children's social care. In July, the organisation - backed with £20m of government funding - was widely criticised for funding "trivial" research into whether giving social workers free "quality" tea and coffee would improve morale. Then, in August, it announced encouraging early findings from its first major study which assessed the benefits of placing social workers in schools. For Sanders, a former civil servant and public policy researcher, it has been an eventful few months after taking charge in January.
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