Mastering Assessment in Child Protection

This comprehensive session offers a deep dive into effective risk assessment within child protection, including a focus on how biases, pressures, and incomplete information can impact decision-making. Rich Devine will introduce cutting-edge strategies for using chronologies as powerful tools in risk assessment, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring defensible, child-centred decisions. Rich will also provide practical ideas to write analysis and assess capacity to change. Learning Outcomes: • Develop a deeper understanding of cognitive biases that impair judgment. • Learn advanced techniques for gathering and interpreting information to assess risk accurately. • Gain practical skills in using chronologies to track patterns and make evidence-based decisions. • Explore how to handle challenging situations where resistance or hostility may cloud assessments. • Build confidence in making ethical, defensible decisions under pressure. • Learn how to write an analysis and assess capacity to change