Ethics review of machine learning in children’s social care
The Project
The Rees Centre is partnering with The Alun Turing Intitute, the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, to conduct this review commissioned by the What Works Centre for Children’s Social Care.
The purpose of the project is to review existing ethical frameworks and assess their applicability to current machine learning practices in the sector as well as to identify specific complexities of children’s social care which would influence the ethics of using machine learning in the sector.
External team members at The Alan Turing Institute: PI: David Leslie; wider team: Christina Hitrova.
Summary
Executive Summary Jan 2020
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Full report
Full report Jan 2020
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Project Details
End date: 2020
Funder: What Works Centre for Children's Social Care
Theme: Rees Centre; Theme 1: Language, Cognition and Development
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