{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/5f45054522ae9150faf6117c/5f8717aaea1f9a3cc829d78c?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Progress in the Field of Child Protection with Eileen Munro","description":"<p>Professor Eileen Munro turned decades of inadequate child protection on its head with one simple question: are we helping or hindering the front line?</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, she reflects on the successes - and revealing failures - of her review into child protection. Eileen covers a lot of ground in a short space of time. It is fascinating.</p><p><br></p><p>Talking points:</p><ul><li>Centralised processes can't protect children, and this centralisation is an unavoidable consequence of the current state of governance</li><li>How child protection can work much better, when the system is re-aligned to its purpose</li><li>Key role of feedback, service sampling, education, and the news media.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>In our commentary Ed and I pick up on these and other points, specifically the governmental conditions that allowed for success, and especially: leaders believing they have grasped the systemic nature of necessary change, when in reality they haven’t. What to do? Find out in this concentrated and stimulating episode.</p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p>The Munro Review into Child Protection:</p><p><a href=\"https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175391/Munro-Review.pdf\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/175391/Munro-Review.pdf</a></p><p><br></p><p>Eileen Munro:</p><p><br></p><p>LSE</p><p><a href=\"https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/people/Emeritus-Visiting/Professor-Eileen-Munro\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.lse.ac.uk/social-policy/people/Emeritus-Visiting/Professor-Eileen-Munro</a></p><p><br></p><p>The Guardian:</p><p><a href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/profile/eileen-munro\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.theguardian.com/profile/eileen-munro</a></p><p><br></p><p>Detail on what child protection actually entails&nbsp;(podcast)</p><p>(listener alert - not for the feint-hearted):</p><p><a href=\"https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07ffxtr\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07ffxtr</a></p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Ed Straw and Philip Tottenham"}