Ken Gough (ShieldCPS)

Worcester, United Kingdom United Kingdom

Championing Early Intervention and effective Child Safety Risk Management

Human Resources / Recruitment

On 3rd March 2015, Isabelle Trowler, the Chief Social Worker for Children and Families, wrote to the Directors of Children's Services and Chief Executives, calling on them to immediately review any Risk Assessment or Decision Making Tools in light of Alexis Jay's report on the Child Sexual Exploitation of children in Rotherham. In the letter, she states the following in part: "At the heart of good social work practice is the ability to make sound decisions about the safety of children. Decision making tools can be helpful but they should only ever be used to assist in decision-making. Operational implementation of assessment tools should only ever proceed once their validity has been ser...