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‘Little evidence’ Signs of Safety improves practice or children’s outcomes, finds pilot evaluation
What Works chief says local authorities considering adopting practice model used by two-thirds of councils should pause for thought, however consultancy behind model say evaluation results reflect implementation problems
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There is “little evidence” that the Signs of Safety (SofS) model – used in some form by two-thirds of English councils – leads to better social work practice or reduced risks to children.
One of the researchers – the head of What Works for Children’s Social Care – said the findings should give councils considering adopting SofS pause for thought, however MTM said they reflected problems of implementation, rather than with the model itself.
Home schooling could increase in the long term due to the pandemic. Picture: Pixabay QUESTIONS about whether more children’s health might be at risk as a result of home education growing after the pandemic have been raised. At its meeting on Thursday, January 14, Oxfordshire County Council’s performance scrutiny committee discussed what the authority’s staff had learned from a report into an unnamed child, Child K, who was seriously underweight and had to be taken to hospital in 2016. The problems faced by Child K included constipation and mental health issues leading to conclusion that without medical intervention there was a significant risk to their life.