Anjuli Kaul’s debut blog explores the latest evidence on the accuracy and accessibility of cited evidence in mental health policy documents.
[read the full story...]Mental health policy: are the “facts” based on “evidence”?
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Social Care in Northern Ireland – not as different as you might think
Catherine Needham reviews a study by Chapman (2019) which considers older people’s knowledge and understanding of the social care system in Northern Ireland.
[read the full story...]School dental screening
This Cochrane review of school dental screening included 6 RCTs finding insufficient evidence that it improves dental attendance. although personalised referral letters or additional motivation elements probably have the ability to improve dental attendance over the short term.
[read the full story...]Bullying in childhood and adolescence: we need to do better
Tamsin Ford publishes her debut elf blog on an annual research review by Louise Arseneault in the Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, which looks at the persistent and pervasive impact of being bullied in childhood and adolescence, and considers important implications for policy and practice.
[read the full story...]Research unit to bring evidence to forefront of mental health policy
Today we announce the launch of the new NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit, led by Sonia Johnson from UCL & Paul McCrone from King’s, alongside researchers from City, University of London and Middlesex University.
[read the full story...]The promised liberation of adult social work under England’s 2014 Care Act
Jill Manthorpe discusses an updated review of the impact of the 2014 Care Act on social work in England.
[read the full story...]How “Big Society” is experienced in the lives of people with learning disabilities: Austerity, broken promises and cruel optimism
Big Society? Disabled people with learning disabilities and civil society is a project funded by the Economic and Social research council (June, 2013 – September, 2015).
The project is a collaboration between universities and organisations of and for people with learning disabilities, further details can be found at: www.bigsocietydis.wordpress.com
Here, just as the project shares its findings at a national conference, Katherine Runswick Cole sets the scene and Silvana Mengoni posts about one of the published papers from the project.
[read the full story...]E-markets and micros: evidence for the future of social care?
Sarah Carr takes an unusual step of appraising a ‘think tank’ research report on e-marketplaces for social care and discusses the work in relation to the broader context of evidence-based policy.
[read the full story...]Trying targets: did Local Area Agreements support social cohesion?
Jenny Fisher asks if the Local Area Agreement policy intervention and associated targets helped with social cohesion and offers useful pointers for further reading on the topic.
[read the full story...]How is evidence-based practice understood in social work?
Sarah Carr considers a Swedish study on understandings of evidence-based practice in social work practitioners, managers and policy makers and wonders how the findings could relate to social work in the UK.
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