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Predictive AI in children’s social care: why we should pause before we proceed
15th July 2026
How can local authorities and other children’s social care professionals better use new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, to enhance front-line services by easing the administrative burden that so often weigh them down?
Baljinder Bath writes in Family Law Journal about the benefits and dangers of implementing predictive AI in children’s social care and why, as well as being a potential force for good, they can – if utilised without sufficient care – cause damage especially to marginalised groups.
Click here to read her article.
Baljinder Bath
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