Blogs from DMSS Research

Learning from a 'whole school approach' to preventing violence against women and girls

In March this year, following the disappearance and murder of Sarah Everard, women and girls across the UK...

Learning from the Women and Girls Initiative

Over the last year as part of the Learning and Evaluation Partnership for the National Lottery...

Continuing to learn from the Women and Girls Initiative

Despite the disruption caused by Covid-19, the work of Women and Girls Initiative (WGI) projects...

Creating Change by Influence - the lessons from the Lloyds Foundation's Transform programme

DMSS do a lot of work with small and medium sized voluntary sector projects and so we're well...

A new tool for CSE practitioners

How can practitioners monitor the progress of young people at risk of Child Sexual Exploitation?

Our new book on What works in Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation

Hardly a week goes by without some new case of child sexual exploitation hitting the news. From Oxford to Rotherham, Telford to...

Child sexual exploitation – a preventative approach

What does it mean to try and 'prevent' young people from being sexually exploited? For the last 3 years we have been...

Tacking youth violence including knife crime – what’s the evidence?

Youth violence is rarely out of the news. Every week the headlines report another tragic death or serious injury, often of...

Key messages from research on institutional child sexual abuse

New Key messages on Institutional child sexual abuse: DMSS have produced the third in their series of key messages...

Key Messages from Research on Child Sexual Abuse

New 'Key messages' for the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse

DMSS have recently produced two key messages papers for Centre for expertise on child sexual abuse...

Using training to achieve change

We are currently supporting lots of projects who are aiming to improve services for victims and survivors of violence and abuse - and many of them are using training...

Support for parents when their child is sexually exploited

The review explores the mismatch that can occur between the perspective of statutory services - which sometimes struggle to relate to parents as partners in safeguarding...

Lloyds Bank Foundation

We are delighted to have been commissioned by the Lloyds Bank Foundation to be the learning and evaluation partner for their Transform programme.

What Have We Learned About Good Social Work Systems and Practice Report

How can we improve social work practice with children and families?

Most people seem to agree what needs to happen to improve children's social work. If you read the recent research, policy and practice literature you'll find several recurring themes such as the importance of leadership, organisational culture, inter-agency working, workforce engagement and stability.

DMSS research, evaluation, policy analysis and
training in the social care sector 2005-2025

Blogs from DMSS

Learning from a 'whole school approach' to preventing violence against women and girls

Learning from the Women and Girls Initiative

Continuing to learn from the Women and Girls Initiative

Creating Change by Influence - the lessons from the Lloyds Foundation's Transform programme

A new tool for CSE practitioners

Our new book on What works in Responding to Child Sexual Exploitation

Child sexual exploitation – a preventative approach

Tacking youth violence including knife crime – what’s the evidence?

Key messages from research on institutional child sexual abuse

New 'Key messages' for the Centre of expertise on child sexual abuse

Using training to achieve change

Support for parents when their child is sexually exploited

Lloyds Bank Foundation

How can we improve social work practice with children and families?

An Untold Story - Experiences of Life and Street Prostitution in Hull

Child Sexual Exploitation in the UK, Belgium and the Netherlands

New DMSS report published by Scottish Commission for Learning Disability