Publications by authors named "Kim Munnery"
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- - The study evaluates the effectiveness of placing social workers in schools (SWIS) in the UK, aiming to reduce the need for social care interventions by enhancing safeguarding responses, fostering collaboration, and improving relationships between social workers and students.
- - Conducted through a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial, 280 secondary schools will be split into groups: one with social workers (SWIS) and a comparison group without, measuring various outcomes like child protection inquiries and educational performance through 2023.
- - Results will identify the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of SWIS, with a final report expected in January 2024, providing insights into its impact on child welfare in educational settings.
Background: The use of administrative data in health and social science research continues to expand, with increased availability of data and interest from funders. Researchers, however, continue to experience delays in access, storage and sharing of administrative data. Training opportunities are limited and typically specific to individual data providers or focussed on the analytical aspects of working with administrative data.
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- The text discusses the impact of COVID-19 on pregnancy, noting associations with adverse outcomes like preterm delivery and stillbirth based on past pandemics.
- It outlines the PAN-COVID registry, an observational study aimed at collecting data on pregnant women affected by COVID-19, which will analyze various outcomes such as miscarriage and vertical transmission of the virus to newborns.
- The study has received ethical approval in the UK, and findings will be shared regularly with participants and collaborators via reports and online platforms to inform clinical practices and public health strategies.