A CELCIS Emerging Insight Series webinar: AI and Children’s Social Care
Can AI improve decision-making and outcomes when it comes to children's care and protection?
For at least the last decade, Artificial Intelligence (AI) has increasingly been seen as a possible answer to how to make public services more efficient.
For the second session in our Emerging Insight Series of webinars we explored what is known about how AI is already being used in decision-making in responding to the care and protection needs of children.
We heard examples from across the world of where systems using AI have been built, the safeguards considered and put in place, how these have been working, and what can be learned from these international case studies, including from the United States of America, the UK and Canada.
For this webinar and discussion we were be joined by:
- Professor Emily Putnam-Hornstein, The John A. Tate Distinguished Professor for Children in Need, University of North Carolina and Faculty Co-Director of the Children's Data Network
- Joanna Redden, Associate Professor, Western University and Co-Director, Data Justice Lab and Starling Centre
- Professor Rhema Vaithianathan, Professor of Health Economics and Director for the Centre for Social Data Analytics (CSDA), Auckland University of Technology (AUT).
- Dr Shion Guha, Assistant Professor, Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
This series of webinars is open to anyone with a professional or personal interest in and responsibility to support children and families in Scotland, the UK and anywhere in the world. This includes:
- Practitioners in social care, health, and education
- Service managers responsible for shaping and delivering key services
- National and local policy leads and decision-makers
- Local service commissioners
- Parents and carers
- Students and researchers of social care
Source material
- Using a Machine Learning Tool to Support High-Stakes Decisions in Child Protection: https://ojs.aaai.org/aimagazine/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/7482
- Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems: https://carnegieuk.org/publication/automating-public-services-learning-from-cancelled-systems/
- Allegheny Family Screening Tool: https://csda.aut.ac.nz/research/our-projects/all-projects/allegheny-family-screening-tool
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Download the slides from Professor Joanna Redden and Dr Shion Guha
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