Browsing through LinkedIn, I am consistently amazed at how many intelligent and talented professionals have “Child Protection Worker” as one of their previous employers. Individuals who showed up every day with professionalism, competency, bravery and heart and understood what it means to do tough work with vulnerable children and families. Many of these individuals didn’t leave because the work wasn’t meaningful, but because the systems that surrounded that meaningful work made it impossible...

Effective safeguarding is about far more than knowing the right answer. It requires practitioners to notice what others miss, understand how families and networks function, recognize emerging risks before they escalate, build practical and sustainable safeguarding plans, mobilize support systems, and make sound decisions in situations where information is often incomplete. Welcome to SgT Simulation Studio, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled simulation platform created for child welfare,...

Introduction Child protection work is amongst the most complex and high-stakes practice there is. Yet a common sentiment across many Western child welfare systems is that the tools, frameworks, assessments, and practice procedures should be straightforward. The rationale is always the same: practitioners are too busy, too stressed, or won’t use anything that requires significant effort or attention to complete. The underlying claim is that child protection must be made simple. This paper...