Effective Child Protection

• An account of how intuition, emotion, and analytic thinking are combined in practice
• An analysis of how the nature of the task determines what combination is needed
• An updated chapter on how we can detect errors
• New material on how organizations can promote good reasoning skills 
• A simpler way to understand risk assessment instruments

Eileen Munro is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the London School of Economics.  She worked as a social worker for many years before turning to an academic career. Professor Munro has written extensively on how best to combine intuitive and analytic reasoning in child protection risk assessment and decision-making and also on the importance of understanding how systems’ factors influence workers’ actions. In 2011, she completed the Munro Review of the English Child Protection System conducting a systems analysis of the problems. She is currently working with philosophy colleagues on research methods for complex systems.