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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2025. ‘That's all very well, but if a child is at risk, you can stick your randomisation up your ****’: a brief history of trials in social work and UK children's social care. Sanders, Michael, Westlake, David and Hirneis, Vanessa, eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials, Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 6-20. (10.4337/9781035327157.00009)

Sanders, Michael, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Hirneis, Vanessa, eds. 2025. Experimental methods and children's social care: the contribution of randomised controlled trials. [The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials]. Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing. 10.4337/9781035327157

Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718 and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2025. Motivational interviewing in Islington: our first, worst, and most eye-opening trial. Sanders, Michael, Westlake, David and Hirneis, Vanessa, eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care: The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials, Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 86-97. (10.4337/9781035327157.00016)

Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124 2025. Go big or go home: trialling the Social Workers in Schools programme during a pandemic. Westlake, David, Sanders, Michael and Hirneis, Vanessa, eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care: The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials, Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 107-120. (10.4337/9781035327157.00018)

Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Sanders, Michael and Hirneis, Vanessa 2025. Looking to the future – concluding thoughts. Sanders, Michael, Westlake, David and Hirneis, Vanessa, eds. Experimental Methods and Children's Social Care: The Contribution of Randomised Controlled Trials, Sociology, Social Policy and Education 2025, Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 200-205. (10.4337/9781035327157.00024)

Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Daher, Shahd, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Ayayo, Sharon, Bennett, Verity, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Meister, Lena, Munnery, Kim, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Roberts, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5596-0280, Rawlinson, Sarah, White, Jamie ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 and Petrou, Stavros 2025. Economic evaluation of a school-based social worker intervention (SWIS) [Abstract]. Presented at: 2nd North American Conference on Integrated Care, Calgary, Canada, 15-17 October 2024. International Journal of Integrated Care. , vol.25 (060) 10.5334/ijic.NACIC24060
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Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Holland, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3855, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Mathur, Vibhor, Lloyd, Harriet, Bezeczky, Zoe, Ablitt, Jonathan, Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809, Johnson, Matthew and Sanders, Michael 2025. Innovative and ambitious or unrealistic and risky? Initial professional perspectives on the Basic Income for Care Leavers in Wales pilot. The British Journal of Social Work , bcaf124. 10.1093/bjsw/bcaf124
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Munnery, Kim, Ayayo, Sharon, Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Smith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-4519, Condie, Jennifer, Daher, Shahd, Roberts, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5596-0280, Rawlinson, Sarah, Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Petrou, Stavros and White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 2025. A Cluster randomised controlled trial of social workers in schools in England. Research on Social Work Practice 10.1177/10497315251338227
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Mathur, Vibhor, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Bezeczky, Zoe, Lloyd, Harriet, Vallis, Dimitris, Sanders, Michael, Pickett, Kate E., Johnson, Matthew, Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809, Schroeder, Elizabeth, Fahr, Patrick, Petrou, Stavros, Lee, Hannah, Holland, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3855 and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2025. Basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: second annual report, 2024 to 2025. [Project Report]. vol. 20/25. Cardiff: Cardiff University. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/sites/default/files/statisti...
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Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Daher, Shahd, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Ayayo, Sharon, Bennett, Verity, Kim, Sungwook, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Meister, Lena, Munnery, Kim, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Roberts, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5596-0280, Rawlinson, Sarah, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 and Petrou, Stavros 2024. The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention: a within-trial economic evaluation. Children and Youth Services Review 166 , 107928. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107928
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Powell, Shane, Fitz-Symonds, Samantha, Wilkins, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0385, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Long, Fiona, Lilly, Evans and Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056 2024. Understanding how and under what circumstances parental advocates support parents to participate in decision-making: a scoping review. Child Care in Practice 30 (4) , pp. 517-536. 10.1080/13575279.2024.2354823
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Daly, Angela 2024. Editorial: Journal of Children's Services Special Edition: the intersection of education and formal and community-based children's services. Journal of Children's Services 19 (3) , pp. 137-141. 10.1108/JCS-09-2024-088

Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Smith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-4519, Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Munnery, Kim, Meister, Lena, Ayayo, Sharon, Rawlinson, Sarah, Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Petrou, Stavros, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2024. Student perspectives on school-based social workers: A mixed-methods study. Journal of Children's Services 19 (3) , pp. 189-221. 10.1108/JCS-04-2023-0021
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Holland, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3855, Sanders, Michael, Schroeder, Elizabeth, Pickett, Kate E., Johnson, Matthew, Petrou, Stavros, Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Rodriguez-Guzman, Guillermo, Vallis, Dimitris, Fahr, Patrick, Bezeczky, Zoe, Mathur, Vibhor and Lloyd, Harriet 2024. The basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: Protocol of a quasi-experimental evaluation. PLoS ONE 19 (10) , e0303837. 10.1371/journal.pone.0303837
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Melendez-Torrez, G. J., Corliss, Cindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-8798, El-Banna, Asmaa, Thompson, Sarah, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Talwar, Ria, Folkes, Louise, Schoenwald, Eva, Addis, Samia and Cook, Laura 2024. Social workers in schools: A feasibility study of three local authorities. Journal of Social Work 24 (5) , pp. 607-626. 10.1177/14680173241258927
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Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175 and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2024. Evaluation of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales pilot: Final Report. [Project Report]. Cardiff: CASCADE.
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Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Daher, Shahd, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Ayayo, Sharon, Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124, Kim, Sungwook, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Meister, Lena, Munnery, Kim, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Rawlinson, Sarah, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 and Petrou, Stavros 2024. The cost-effectiveness and cost-consequences of a school-based social worker intervention: a within-trial economic evaluation. [Online]. SSRN.
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Holland, Sally ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7600-3855, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Roberts, Louise ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6154-3549, Vallis, Dimitris, Lloyd, Harriet, Sanders, Michael, Mathur, Vibhor, Bezeczky, Zoe, Pickett, Kate E., Johnson, Matthew, Hick, Rod ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1218-0809, Ablitt, Jonathan, Schroeder, Elizabeth, Fahr, Patrick and Petrou, Stavros 2024. Basic income for care leavers in Wales pilot evaluation: annual report, 2023 to 2024. Welsh Government. Available at: https://www.gov.wales/basic-income-care-leavers-wa...
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Sanders, Michael, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Ellingwood, Julia, Bancroft, Kate and Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124 2024. Pilot trial protocol: Police in corridors. Youth Endowment Fund Charitable Fund. Available at: https://youthendowmentfund.org.uk/funding/who-we-f...
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Devine, Richard, Benson, Katy, Fitz-Symonds, Samantha, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Campbell, Katie and Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056 2023. Peer parental advocacy: A narrative review of the literature. Journal of Children's Services 18 (3/4) , pp. 244-260. 10.1108/JCS-08-2022-0020
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Fitz-Symonds, Samantha, Evans, Lilly, Tobis, David, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056 2023. Mechanisms for support: A realist evaluation of peer parental advocacy in England. The British Journal of Social Work 10.1093/bjsw/bcad200
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Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Ayayo, Sharon, Munnery, Kim, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Rawlinson, Sarah, Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124, Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Roberts, Louisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0009-5596-0280, Smith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-4519, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Daher, Shahd, Petrou, Stravorso, Schroeder, Elizabeth-Ann, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Meister, Lena and White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 2023. The Social Workers in Schools Trial: An evaluation of school based social work. [Project Report]. Early Intervention Foundation.
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Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056, Fitz-Symonds, Samantha, Evans, Lilly, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Devine, Richard, Mauri, Diletta and Davies, Bethan ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4997-8432 2023. The perceived impact of peer parental advocacy on child protection practice: a mixed-methods evaluation. [Project Report]. What Works for Early Intervention and Children’s Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Th...
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Corliss, Cindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-8798, Thompson, Sarah, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056, Talwar, Ria and Folkes, Louise 2022. Devolved budgets in Children’s Social Care: A logic model based on three pilot evaluations. British Journal of Social Work 52 (7) , pp. 3999-4020. 10.1093/bjsw/bcac019
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Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Hosch, Meghan and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2022. An evaluation of the Family Drug and Alcohol Court in Wales pilot: Interim report. [Project Report]. Cardiff University. Available at: https://cascadewales.org/research/evaluation-of-th...
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Munnery, Kim, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Meister, Lena, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Petrou, Stavros, White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 and Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703 2022. Evaluating a school-based intervention through routine local authority data and national school data: challenges and opportunities. Presented at: International Population Data Linkage Conference 2022, 7 - 9 September 2022. International Journal of Population Data Science. , vol.7 (3) 10.23889/ijpds.v7i3.1886
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Pallmann, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8274-9696, Lugg-Widger, Fiona ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0029-9703, Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Petrou, Stavros, Daher, Shahd, Adara, Linda ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0015-3942, Cook, Laura, Munnery, Kim, Bennett, Verity ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9311-4124, Smith, Philip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3491-4519 and White, James ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8371-8453 2022. The SWIS trial: protocol of a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial of school based social work. PLoS ONE 17 (6) , e0265354.. 10.1371/journal.pone.0265354
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Jones, Rebecca K. and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2021. Independent visiting with children in care during the pandemic: disruptions and discoveries. Qualitative Social Work 20 (1-2) , pp. 383-389. 10.1177/1473325020981087
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Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Evans, Lilly 2021. The perceived impact of peer parental advocacy on child protection practice: a pilot evaluation. What Works for Children's Social Care. Available at: http://whatworks-csc.org.uk/research-project/the-p...
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Melendez-Torres, G. J., Corliss, Cindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-8798, El-Banna, Asmaa, Thompson, Sarah, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Talwar, Ria, Folkes, Louise, Schoenwold, Eva, Addis, Samia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-5317 and Cook, Laura 2020. Social workers in schools: an evaluation of pilots in three local authorities in England. [Project Report]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WW...
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Corliss, Cindy ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0990-8798, El-Banna, Asmaa, Thompson, Sarah, Meindl, Melissa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1231-0175, Talwar, Ria, Diaz, Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5681-9056, Folkes, Louise and Addis, Samia ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9050-5317 2020. Devolved budgets: an evaluation of pilots in three local authorities in England. [Project Report]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/WW...
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Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Killian, Mike, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Sheehan, Lucy 2020. Patterns of practice: an exploratory factor analysis of child and family social worker skills. Child and Family Social Work 25 (1) , pp. 108-117. 10.1111/cfs.12664
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2020. Direct observation in practice: co-developing an evidence-informed practice tool to assess social work communication. Journal of Children's Services 15 (3) , pp. 123-140. 10.1108/JCS-08-2019-0043
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Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Killian, Mike, Antonopolou, Vivi, McCann, Michelle, Thurnham, Angela, Thomas, Roma, Waits, Charlotte, Whittaker, Charlotte and Hutchinson, Douglas 2019. What is the relationship between worker skills and outcomes for families in child and family social work? British Journal of Social Work 49 (8) , pp. 2148-2167. 10.1093/bjsw/bcy126
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Wilkins, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0385, Jones, Rebecca and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2018. 'The activity does not archive well': Comparing audio and written records of supervision case discussions in Children's Services. Journal of Children's Services 13 (3/4) , pp. 93-109. 10.1108/JCS-03-2018-0005
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Wilkins, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2780-0385, Jones, Rebecca and Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 2018. The activity does not archive well: comparing audio and written records of supervision case discussions in Children’s Services. Journal of Children's Services 13 (3/4) , pp. 93-109. 10.1108/jcs-03-2018-0005

Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Killian, Mike, Antonopoulou, Vivi, McCann, Michelle, Thurnham, Angela, Thomas, Roma, Waits, Charlotte, Whittaker, Charlotte and Hutchison, Dougal 2018. A randomized controlled trial of training in motivational Interviewing for child protection. Children and Youth Services Review 88 , pp. 180-190. 10.1016/j.childyouth.2018.02.014
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Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413, Silverwood, Victoria, Wallace, Sarah ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4374-3667, Mayhew-Manistre, Laura ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1327-4786 and Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718 2018. Safely reducing the need for children to enter care: telephone interviews with local authorities in England. [Project Report]. London: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care. Available at: https://whatworks-csc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/Re...
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Killian, Michael, Forrester, Donald ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2293-5718, Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Antonopoulou, Paraskevi 2017. Validity of the Working Alliance Inventory within child protection services. Research on Social Work Practice 27 (6) , pp. 704-715. 10.1177/1049731515596816

Westlake, David ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7507-3413 and Jones, Rebecca K 2017. Breaking down language barriers: a practice-near study of social work using interpreters. The British Journal of Social Work 48 (5) , 1388–1408,. 10.1093/bjsw/bcx073

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