Dr Alexander McTier
Evidence And Evaluation Specialist
Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection
Personal statement
Personal statement
I am the Evidence and Evaluation Specialist at the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection (CELCIS), University of Strathclyde. My interests focus on working with national and local children's services partners (e.g. Scottish Government, local authorities, Police Scotland, the Care Inspectorate, and the Third Sector) to develop and implement effective ways of collating, analysing and using data and intelligence.
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Publications
- Increasing the visibility of disabled children in Scotland's children's statistics : findings from a test collection
- McTier Alexander
- (2025)
- The impact of health and social care integration on children and young people’s outcomes : what can be determined from Scotland’s administrative data?
- Soraghan Joanna, McTier Alexander, Anderson Micky, Anderson Carol Ann, Young Emma, Bowman Adrian, Ottaway Heather
- International Journal of Integrated Care Vol 25 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.9145
- A short report of a Scottish audit of disability and child protection medical examinations
- Govenden Stephanie, Taylor Julie, Devaney John, McTier Alex
- Child Abuse Review Vol 33 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/car.2906
- An Update of Scotland's National Indicators of Child Neglect
- McTier Alexander
- (2024)
- Are Disabled Children Visible in Scotland's Children's Statistics? : Understanding the Data: A Review of Scotland's Statistics
- McTier Alexander
- (2024)
- National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021 : Analysis of Local Implementation
- McTier Alexander
- (2024)
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Projects
- Aberdeen City Council - Fairer Futures Pathfinder - Year 1
- Ottaway, Heather (Principal Investigator) Anderson, Carolann (Co-investigator) McTier, Alexander (Co-investigator) Quinn, Laura (Co-investigator) Scullion, Danielle (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2026
- Development and Testing of Disabled Children's Indicators
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- Development and testing of indicators to support practitioners to record disability among children involved in the child protection system. The work was in partnership with the National Joint Investigative Interview Team and seven local Joint Investigative Interview Partnerships.
- 01-Jan-2024 - 30-Jan-2025
- National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021: Analysis of Local Implementation
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- Development and analysis of a self-evaluation tool for Scotland's child protection committees to assess their local implementation of the National Guidance for Child Protection in Scotland 2021.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 29-Jan-2024
- Children's Services Reform Research study
- Ottaway, Heather (Principal Investigator) Porter, Robert Benjamin (Co-investigator) McTier, Alexander (Co-investigator) Anderson, Micky (Co-investigator) Young, Emma (Co-investigator) McIver, Leanne (Co-investigator) Fowler, Nadine (Co-investigator) Mackinnon, Kate (Co-investigator) Soraghan, Joanna (Co-investigator) Manole, Mihaela (Co-investigator)
- A research project commissioned by Scottish Government with the aim of gathering evidence to inform decision-making about how best to deliver children's services in Scotland in light of the proposed introduction of the National Care Service
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Births to care experienced teenagers and women aged 14-24 in Scotland: an estimation
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator) Young, Emma (Researcher) Anderson, Carol Ann (Researcher)
- Using secondary data, the research developed a methodology for estimating the number of births to care experienced teenagers and women in Scotland.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 28-Jan-2023
- A Review of Scotland’s National Indicators Relating to Child Neglect
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- A review of the existing child neglect-related data in Scotland to help identify key trends over the last 3-5 years that can then inform national policy and practice.
- 01-Jan-2022 - 30-Jan-2022
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Contact
Dr
Alexander
McTier
Evidence And Evaluation Specialist
Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection
Email: alex.mctier@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 444 8584