See also research – social care and research – social care (continued) See also research – health and research – health (continued) Building a Children’s Community for the West End of Newcastle (2015 – ongoing) A children’s community brings together a range of existing services in a specific geographical area to work in […]
OLDER PEOPLE Developing Evidence-Enriched Practice in Health and Social Care with Older People programme (2014-2015 – ongoing) The DEEP programme is part of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation funded ‘A Better Life’ which ran from 2009 to 2014. This programme produced a wealth of research evidence on the factors that promote a better quality of life for […]
Janet Grauberg is an organisational learning consultant working in children’s services. In this article she explains why we should use Action Learning to embed evidence-informed practice. https://www.alliance4usefulevidence.org/encouraging-evidence-informed-practice-through-action-learning/
Slay, J., Robinson, B. (2011). In This Together – Building Knowledge About Co-Production. NEF/NESTA. https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/b3d00daf74d4c4411b_k1m6ibw57.pdf A NEF Report detailing the design and delivery of several co-production projects. A series of case studies and personal testimonies of how co-production has had a transformative effect across a range of sectors. The report draws out the practical processes […]
Slay, J., 2014. Transforming Youth Service: Unlocking Value Through Co-Production. NEF. https://neweconomics.org/uploads/files/3bf3d0d37f59967672_s4m6ivqnu.pdf An article on how co-production can be applied to the commissioning phase of youth services.
Co-Production, the Third Sector and the delivery of public services Brandsen, T., Pestoff, V., 2006. Co-production, the third sector and the delivery of public services. PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REVIEW. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221657221_Co-production_the_third_sector_and_the_delivery_of_public_services_An_introduction An introductory paper on co-production in relation to child care. A Guide to Co-Producing Children’s Services Aked, J., 2009. A Guide to Co-Producing Children’s Services. […]
Children are leading the way on tackling sexual harassment in schools Article from March 2017 published on theconversation.com by Emma Renold, Professor of Childhood Studies at Cardiff University. At present, Wales is the only nation that has a devolved government guide for taking a whole school approach to sexual harassment, backed by law. But we wanted to go further […]
The Good Help Award was launched in February 2018 as part of the release of the Nesta and Osca publication Good and bad help: how purpose and confidence transforms lives. This publication explores the difference between ‘good help’ – that supports people to feel hopeful, identify their own goals and confidently take action – and ‘bad help’ – that undermines people’s […]
Children in Hackney are set to reclaim the streets, thanks to a groundbreaking scheme that closes selected streets to through traffic, turning them into play streets. http://www.hackney.gov.uk/play-streets.htm#.U7B-SvldWcF
By Anne Moore in The Guardian “The Land is close to the original adventure playgrounds that started in Denmark during the second world war. The first was created by the landscape architect Carl Theodor Sørensen after watching children playing on bombsites, building and demolishing. It opened in Copenhagen in August 1943 and was known as askrammellegepladsen, […]
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