What Works Summit: Youth Mental Health
Tuesday 14 May, 2019
Belfast, United Kingdom
Learn what the best evidence can tell us about what works in youth mental health.
event The Alliance for Useful Evidence is a network, hosted by Nesta, that champions the smarter use of evidence in social policy and practice. We do this through advocacy, organising events, sharing ideas, and delivering training and support.
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Advice and advocacy
We work with champions, partners and allies to campaign for the smarter use of evidence, and advise organisations on how to use evidence effectively.
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Research and ideas
We publish reports, articles and case studies, and we organise events to encourage discussion, debate, collaboration and innovation.
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Training and skills
We deliver a range of courses, from our flagship Evidence Masterclass, to more bespoke strategic support such as our theory of change workshops.
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event Supporting evidence-informed children’s social work: Creating a What Works toolkit
11 April, 2019Practitioner toolkits have become the hallmark of the What Works Network. They allow frontline workers to compare the effectiveness of different practices and programmes. But what’s it like to create one of these resources? What challenges...
article A landmark evaluation of the Troubled Families programme
21 March, 2019The results of one of the most complex evaluations ever attempted in social policy were published this week. Based on a specially built dataset with over a million cases and over 3,000 variables, its focus was one...
article Sharing What Works
28 February, 2019Earlier this month the What Works Summit – Early Years in Belfast brought together local researchers, decision-makers and practitioners to meet four of the ten UK What Works Centres: Wales Centre for Public Policy (WCPP), Early...
article Khulisa’s use of evidence
7 February, 2019In this short film Lisa Rowles, Director of Innovation and Evidence at Khulisa, explains how using evidence has helped the charity to develop effective services for children and young people. View subtitled version.
case study Mini-publics are for policy not just for Brexit
7 February, 2019We live in an era where trust in political institutions is low and declining. It has been suggested that this lack of trust extends to experts too. For too long evidence has been seen as the...
article Evidence vs Democracy: what are we doing to bridge the divide?
30 January, 2019People are hacked off with politicians. Whether it’s hurling abuse at MPs outside the House of Commons, or the burning barricades of Gilets Jaunes in Toulouse, discontent is in the air. The evidence movement must respond...
article Evidence vs Democracy: How ‘mini-publics’ can traverse the gap between citizens, experts, and evidence
January 2019Can mini-publics - an alternative democratic platform - help democracy connect with evidence?
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