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
- 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)
- Children's Services Reform Research : Learning and Implications for Scotland: Concluding Report
- Ottaway Heather, McTier Alex, Manole Mihaela, Anderson Micky, Porter Robert, Scott Jane, Young Emma, Fowler Nadine, Soraghan Joanna, McIver Leanne, Anderson Carol Ann, Mackinnon Kate
- (2023)
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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 - 02-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
- 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
- The impact of COVID-19 on children and families in Scotland: Understanding needs and services through local social work data
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- This report was produced in collaboration with local authorities and stakeholders in Scotland to inform the Scottish Government Children and Families Collective Leadership Group's consideration of the impact of COVID-19 on children and families. It draws on interviews with 7 Scottish local authorities and data from social work, health and the Third Sector.
- 15-Jan-2021 - 22-Jan-2021
- Eurochild-UNICEF DataCare Project
- McTier, Alexander (Principal Investigator)
- The Eurochild-UNICEF DataCare Project aims to establish consistent European-wide indicators for children in alternative care across all Member States. Contributed to project as Scotland’s National Correspondent, providing details of alternative care data indicators collected in Scotland
- 01-Jan-2020 - 26-Jan-2021
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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