In 2003 the First Minister launched the Child Protection Reform Programme (CPRP) – a three-year initiative with the goal of improving protection of children at risk of neglect and abuse and reducing the number of children who need protection. A process review of the CPRP was carried out by Dundee University’s Centre for Child Care and Protection and Barnardo’s Scotland Research and Development Team, with the aim to investigate:
• how the CPRP was planned and implemented;
• the aims in planning the programme in this particular way; and
• whether or not the process was successful.