Evaluation

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Dr Crispin Day BSc, Clin Psych, PhD, AFBPS, Chartered Scientist

Head of Centre for Parent and Child Support, South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, London

Visiting Professor/Head of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) Research Unit, King’s College, London, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience

Dr Day has a special interest in developing, evaluating and disseminating innovative methods that enable parents to give their children the best start in life.  Alongside his longstanding work in service delivery, workforce development and system change, Dr Day has pioneered a range of evidence-based community child and family services, parenting programmes and interventions from pregnancy to adolescence that are used extensively across the UK, Europe and internationally.  These include peer-led, place-based approaches (such as, Empowering Parents, Empowering Communities, Day et al., 2012, 2020); methods to improve the early identification of foetal/infant and family needs (such as, the Antenatal/Postnatal Promotional Guide system, Day, 2014); methods to improve multiagency/multidisciplinary family engagement and outcomes(such as, Family Partnership Model, Day, Ellis & Harris, 2015); and specialist parenting intervention for parents with severe mental health difficulties, and child neglect and abuse (Helping Families Programme, Day et al, 2020).  

Dr Day has extensive experience of national and international programme dissemination, implementation and system change, including wide involvement in many national and international child development programmes and initiatives. 

Dr Day has extensive experience of leading mixed-method outcome and implementation research, including randomised and quasi-experimental trials. Dr Day has provided expert advice to the UK government as well as policy advisors, academics and service providers globally including Japan, China, Australasia and Europe.