1. Michael Little Dartington Social Research Unit, UK and Chapin Hall Center for Children at the University of Chicago, US

3. differences of opinion or false divides child protectionfamily support preventiontreatment top downbottom up community engagement prevention science

4. a new way of doing business common language, innovation and better outcomes good evidence about the problem and potential solutions community engagement and ownership of children services

5. false divide #1 child protection or family support

6. 11 million children children referred to children’s services children in need 160,000 child protection procedures 160,000 family visit no help no further investigation children considered to need help child protection conference child’s name on protection register children not known to children’s services children not offered any help false divide #1 child protection or family support

7. 11 million children children referred to children’s services children in need 160,000 Child protection procedures 160,000 children not offered any help family visit no further investigation children considered to need help child protection conference child’s name on protection register people call this child protection people call this family support no help children not known to children’s services false divide #1 child protection or family support

8. 11 million children children referred to children’s services children in need 160,000 Child protection procedures 160,000 family visit no further investigation children considered to need help child protection conference child’s name on protection register these children get very little help or a very strong intervention e.g foster care these children get “thin” services no help children not known to children’s services children not offered any help false divide #1 child protection or family support people call this child protection people call this family support

9. reasoning psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 2% 7% 22% 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 70,000 260,000 17,000 false divide #2 prevention or treatment

11. psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 2% 7% 22% 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 1.0 2.0 3.0 mean scores on behaviour problems 70,000 260,000 17,000 false divide #2 prevention or treatment reasoning child protection as prevention could mean increasing reasoning and reducing aggression in families

12. psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 1.0 2.0 3.0 mean scores on behaviour problems 70,000 260,000 17,000 child protection as prevention could mean increasing reasoning and reducing aggression in families potential effects false divide #2 prevention or treatment reasoning

13. psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 1.0 2.0 3.0 mean scores on behaviour problems child protection as prevention could mean increasing reasoning and reducing aggression in families 70,000 260,000 17,000 potential effects false divide #2 prevention or treatment reasoning

14. psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 1.0 2.0 3.0 mean scores on behaviour problems 70,000 260,000 17,000 child protection as prevention could mean increasing reasoning and reducing aggression in families potential effects false divide #2 prevention or treatment reasoning

15. psychological aggression and/or minor physical violence severe violence 10% 20% 30% % of children with clinical disorder 1.0 2.0 3.0 mean scores on behaviour problems 70,000 260,000 17,000 child protection as prevention could mean increasing reasoning and reducing aggression in families potential effects false divide #2 prevention or treatment reasoning child protection as treatment could mean better mental health services

17. false divide #3 top down or bottom up top downbottom up evidencecosmeticlocal/low quality community engagementlowhigh common languagelow fidelitypoor the little children Super START

18. www.commonlanguage.org.uk

19. OcOc A I OtOt

20. OcOc A I./ OtOt....

21. OcOc epidemiology A I OtOt national policy consumer voice database of good practice community ownership rigorous evaluation

22. resources in Australasia epidemiologyaustralian early development index consumer viewearly innovations at this accan conference national policypolitical will but lack of direction? ‘what works’ evidence triple-p, queensland early intervention and prevention of anxiety project (qeipap)

26. single threshold

27. thick prevention services

28. further resources www.preventionaction.org for daily online news about child development and children’s services www.michaellittle.org for materials relating to this talk, including podcast of this presentation www.commonlanguage.org.uk for information on our methods www.dartington-i.org www.dartington-i.org to see people talking about these methods