Introducing Turnell Plus
Professor Andrew Turnell, AM
Andrew Turnell AM is Social Work Professor of Practice at Cumbria University, principal co-creator of the Signs of Safety, founding CEO of Elia International (the home of the Signs of Safety since 2020) and in January 2023 received a Member of the Order of Australia award for his sustained, innovative contributions to child protection Social Work.
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Pene Turnell
Pene’s 11 years as a child protection practitioner coincided with the Western Australian child protection department’s state-wide implementation of the Signs of Safety. After leaving the department, Pene took on the role of International Executive Director of Signs of Safety practice for Elia International. In this role, Pene led the continual development of the Signs of Safety practice approach and the implementation and learning methods that support it. Pene now works alongside Andrew Turnell in their own consultancy business Turnell Plus.
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Our Associates
Turnell Plus Associates support Andrew, Pene and Pippa and (if available) will work directly with Children’s Services agencies so Turnell Plus services can best assist agencies align their organisation with practice.
Working with our associates, Turnell Plus offers whole system consultation, research, leadership, improvement, policy and IT system development support to assist Children’s Service’s agencies better align their organisational culture, leadership, structures and systems with the service outcomes for children and families they want through supporting their practitioners to most effectively deliver the participatory practice approach of the agency’s choice.
At a minimum, even if not available to work directly with your agency both Professors Munro and Thimbleby will offer advice and guidance to Andrew, Pene and Pippa in how they support agencies through Turnell Plus
Professor Eileen Munro CBE
Eileen Munro is Emeritus Professor of Social Policy in the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics
Eileen’s background in both philosophy and social work has shaped her research interests in reasoning skills in child protection, leading to an interest in how organisational cultures help or hinder good quality reasoning and practice. Seeking a fuller understanding of the complex causal processes in working with families has triggered a critical interest in the philosophy of social science underlying the evidence-based policy and practice movements. See more
Pippa Barker
Pippa Barker has had a long and successful career as a children’s social worker and manager, working across children’s statutory services, not-for-profit sector and the computer software industry. She has a unique perspective on children’s services recording systems having been a user, an implementer and a product specialist. This has evolved into a focused passion for designing IT systems that practitioners want to use.
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Professor Harold Thimbleby
Harold Thimbleby is See Change Fellow in Digital Health, based at Swansea University, Wales. Harold is a popular speaker, and has been invited to talk in over 30 countries.
Harold’s work focuses on the effective initial and continuing iterative design of fit-for-purpose IT systems and the sustained whole organisation focus that is required to sustain a case management system and any software the organisation uses to ensure it actually does the job it is intended to do.
