Can anyone recommend a good risk assessment tool for use with looked after children in residential settings - ideally one with some evidence behind it

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Brie M Reid

Duncan,

I would look into the WCI-QCUALS tool by the wholechild.org - they have a digital assessment tool that they are using in institutions in a number of different countries

Robyn Munford

You could look at the Pathways to Resilience Youth Measure (PRYM) which has both risk and resilience questions - this is validated - see Michael Ungar at Dalhousie University.