New WACIT paper: It takes more than training to make impact

I recently shared my shock on the conditions of a ‘European’ children’s home. It became clear from that visit that training was not enough, but rather needed a co-ordinated approach, with service transformation and key managers on board.

Here is relevant evidence on professionals’ experience on similar barriers to implementing what they had learnt from their interdisciplinary child protection training in Saudi Arabia. Essentially, training needs to be accompanied by co-ordinated awareness programmes to change attitudes and beliefs, and organizational changes to support practitioners in their everyday work:

https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872819878485