Professional curiosity, which is vital in keeping children safe can also lead practitioners to feel a fear of causing offense, stress and tension, a lack of confidence, compassion fatigue, and in ...

The world of work continues to change rapidly, owing to evolving societal challenges, complex global and local ecosystems, technology and AI, among other factors. In such a changing landscape, a ...

Children’s services leaders must foster the conditions for professional curiosity and challenge to improve the quality of child protection practice, the national safeguarding body has said. The Child ...

(This is the final post in a three-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Tonia Gibson, a former teacher and school leader in Australia, is a senior managing consultant at McREL ...

Remember your first day of school? Your first date? What about your first day on a new job? What’s the common theme? Hopefully you’ve said, “It’s the unknown.” In each scenario, walking into something ...

Social workers should have shown more 'professional curiosity' over the care of a baby girl who later died after she was left home alone by her mother, an inquest has heard. Asiah Kudi, aged 20 months ...

There were too many ‘opportunities missed’ in the care of a baby murdered by her adoptive father, an official report has revealed today. Elsie Scully-Hicks, 18 months, was put in the care of fitness ...