The work, which will be conducted by research organisation ResPublica, will focus on the role of the community in safeguarding children and will assess ways in which members of the public can make a contribution to the agenda.
Dr Sandra Gruesca, who will be working on the study, told CYP Now the research will look at new and innovative ways of working that will lead to an improvement in safeguarding practices.
It will explore the possibility of drop-in social work surgeries, similar to GP surgeries, as a way of encouraging members of the public to come forward to provide vital safeguarding information.
"At the moment you can have people who are unwilling to go to the police with concerns, possibly because of negative experiences they have had with them in the past," Gruesca said.
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