Munro, Eileen


Professor Eileen Munro   CBE

Department

Position held

Department of Social Policy

Professor of Social Policy

Experience keywords:

child protection; mental health risk assessment; risk assessment; child abuse

Research summary > [Click to expand]

Risk assessment and management in child protection and mental health work.

Media experience:

RadioTV

Contact Points

LSE phone number:

+44 (0)20 7955 7349

Publications

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2012

Munro, Eileen (2012) Review: Children and young people's missed health care appointments: reconceptualising 'Did Not Attend' to 'Was Not Brought' - a review of the evidence for practice. Journal of research in nursing, 17 (2). pp. 193-194. ISSN 1744-9871

2011

Munro, Eileen and Hubbard, A. (2011) A systems approach to evaluating organisational change in children's social care. British journal of social work, 41 (4). pp. 726-743. ISSN 1468-263X

Munro, Eileen (2011) The Munro review of child protection: final report, a child-centred system. The Stationery Office, London, UK

Munro, Eileen (2011) Child protection must focus on the child, not on rules and targets. Blog post from London School of Economics & Political Science

2010

Munro, Eileen (2010) Learning to reduce risk in child protection. British journal of social work, 40 (4). pp. 1135-1151. ISSN 1468-263X

Munro, Eileen (2010) Conflating risks: implications for accurate risk prediction in child welfare services. Health, risk & society, 12 (2). pp. 119-130. ISSN 1369-8575

Cartwright, Nancy and Munro, Eileen (2010) The limitations of randomized controlled trials in predicting effectiveness. Journal of evaluation in clinical practice, 16 (2). pp. 260-266. ISSN 1356-1294

2009

Munro, Eileen (2009) Managing societal and institutional risk in child protection. Risk analysis, 29 (7). pp. 1015-1023. ISSN 1539-6924

2008

Munro, Eileen (2008) Effective child protection. Sage Publications, Los Angeles, USA. ISBN 9781412946957

Munro, Eileen (2008) Lessons from research on decision-making. In: Lindsey, Duncan and Shlonsky, Aron, (eds.) Child welfare research: advances for practice and policy. Oxford University Press, New York, NY; Oxford, UK, pp. 194-200. ISBN 9780195304961

2007

Munro, Eileen (2007) The dangers of information sharing. Social policy journal of New Zealand, (31). ISSN 1172-4382

Munro, Eileen (2007) Confidentiality in a preventive child welfare system. Ethics and social welfare, 1 (1). pp. 41-55. ISSN 1749-6543

Munro, Eileen (2007) Child protection. SAGE Publications, London. ISBN 9781412911788

Munro, Eileen and Parton, Nigel (2007) How far is England in the process of introducing a mandatory reporting system? Child abuse review, 16 (1). pp. 5-16. ISSN 1099-0852

Anderson, Ross and Brown, Ian and Clayton, Richard and Dowty, Terri and Korff, Douwe and Munro, Eileen (2007) Children's databases - safety and privacy: a report for the information commissioner. Information Commissioners Office, Wilmslow, UK

2005

Munro, Eileen (2005) What tools do we need to improve identification of child abuse? Child abuse review, 14 (6). pp. 374-388. ISSN 0952-9136

Munro, Eileen and Calder, Martin (2005) Where has child protection gone? The political quarterly, 76 (3). pp. 439-445. ISSN 0032-3179

Munro, Eileen (2005) Improving practice : child protection as a systems problem. Children and youth services review, 27 (4). pp. 375-391. ISSN 0190-7409

Munro, Eileen (2005) A systems approach to investigating child abuse deaths. British journal of social work, 35 (4). pp. 531-546. ISSN 0045-3102

2004

Munro, Eileen (2004) The impact of audit on social work practice. British journal of social work, 34 (8). pp. 1073-1074. ISSN 1468-263X

Munro, Eileen (2004) A simpler way to understand the results of risk assessment instruments. Child and youth services review, 26 (9). pp. 873-883. ISSN 0190-7409

Munro, Eileen (2004) Improving safety in medicine - a systems approach. British journal of psychiatry, 185 (1). pp. 3-4. ISSN 0007-1250

Munro, Eileen (2004) State regulation of parenting. The political quarterly, 75 (2). pp. 180-184. ISSN 0032-3179

Munro, Eileen (2004) Mental health tragedies: investigating beyond human error. Journal of forensic psychiatry and psychology, 15 (3). pp. 475-493. ISSN 1478-9949

Munro, Eileen (2004) Can "tracking" children reduce the harm of poverty? Child poverty action group journal, (119). pp. 7-10. ISSN 0032-5856

Munro, Eileen (2004) The impact of child abuse inquiries since 1990. In: Stanley, Nicky and Manthorpe, Jill, (eds.) The Age of the Inquiry. Routledge, London. ISBN 0415283167

2003

Munro, Eileen (2003) Formal risk assessment instruments or intuitive knowledge? Bohn Stafleu Van Loghum, Houten, The Netherlands.

2002

Munro, Eileen (2002) Effective child protection. Sage Publications, London, UK. ISBN 9781412933049

Munro, Eileen (2002) Integrating intuition and analysis in child protection. Social welfare at Berkeley, Fall pp. 7-9.

Munro, Eileen (2002) The role of theory in social work research: a further contribution to the debate. Journal of social work education, 38 (3). pp. 461-471. ISSN 1043-7797

2001

Munro, Eileen (2001) Empowering looked after children. Child and family social work, 6 (2). pp. 129-137. ISSN 1365-2206

Rumgay, Judith and Munro, Eileen (2001) The lion's den: professional defences in the treatment of dangerous patients. Journal of forensic psychiatry & psychology, 12 (2). pp. 357-378. ISSN 1478-9949

2000

Munro, Eileen (2000) Defending professional social work practice. In: Froggett, L and Harris, J and Paylor, I, (eds.) Reclaiming social work: the Southport papers. Venture Press, Birmingham, UK. ISBN 9781861780386

Munro, Eileen and Rumgay, Judith (2000) The role of risk assessment in reducing homicides by people with mental illness. British journal of psychiatry, 176 (2). pp. 116-120. ISSN 0007-1250

1999

Munro, Eileen (1999) Common errors of reasoning in child protection work. Child abuse and neglect, 23 (8). pp. 745-758. ISSN 0145-2134

1996

Munro, Eileen (1996) Avoidable and unavoidable mistakes in child protection work. British journal of social work, 26 (6). pp. 793-808. ISSN 1468-263X

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Appointed CBE, New Year's Honours 2012

 

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