Blog and News
“An integral part of how we communicate emotions” – How Walsall Council is using Schwartz Rounds
6 September 2019
Bolton Council undertakes new project to provide supervision to Designated Safeguarding Leads
7 August 2019
Making meetings meaningful: Good practice when involving families in decision-making
12 July 2019
Intensive Family Preservation Services: a promising way of keeping families together
10 June 2019
What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care announces research partners in ethics review of machine learning
10 April 2019
Research shows preventative interventions have a positive effect on children’s mental health – but how strong is the evidence behind this research?
1 April 2019
“You can always ignore us, and take your own road, but if you ever need us, we’ll be here”
14 February 2019
Call for partners to pilot potential of analysing case notes to assist social workers
7 February 2019
Six local authorities to work with the What Works Centre to try to reduce the need for children to be in care
25 January 2019
On the road with the What Works Centre & building a Centre that works for the sector
4 January 2019
The Imitation Game: understanding expertise is essential for an evidence based Social Work practice
17 December 2018
Centre to re-analyse wealth of existing education data focusing on children’s social care
10 December 2018
Supporting adopters and special guardians when children and young people are hard to care for
30 November 2018
Not all local authorities have rising care rates. How do we explain this?
28 November 2018
Calling data science managers and researchers interested in children’s social care
26 November 2018
Recruiting now: Centre seeks new Head of Research, Head of Programmes and Operations Director
10 November 2018
In ‘DEMO’ mode: Diagnosing the Evidence-Minded Children’s Social Care Organisation
9 November 2018
New Executive Director announced for What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care
2 November 2018
Listen to the webinar on our change initiatives, how to apply and what we’re looking for
15 October 2018
Recruiting now: Programme Facilitator to help deliver our evidence masterclasses
19 September 2018
‘Head and hands’ – valuing knowledge created by the children’s social care sector
11 September 2018
“Learn and move on – our approach to co-designing research, products and services”
24 July 2018
“We welcome the opportunity to experiment and it’s important there is a research base behind this”
24 July 2018
“It will enable us to embed the latest research evidence into our social work practice”
24 July 2018
“I was part of a group of young people who interviewed the Founding Chair. It’s not every day young people get such an opportunity”
5 July 2018
Pioneering new approaches to generating and sharing evidence in children’s social care
4 May 2018
We’re helping to develop the new What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care
12 October 2017