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Click to edit Master title style,*,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,What Works,The role of evidence based policy and research in Britains welfare to work policies,Professor Dan Finn,University of Portsmouth,“.Social science should be at the heart of policy making.We need a revolution in the relationship between government and the social research community we need social scientists to help determine what works and why,and what type of policy initiatives are likely to be most effective(David Blunkett,Secretary of State for Education and Employment,2000),Context,Relationship between applied research and British social policy develops from late 1890s,Took considerable time to establish that research was of use in both formulating social policies and administering them,Research into,and evaluation,of government policies now systematic&routine interest in impacts,efficiency and value for money(post New Public Management),Increase in organisations producing evidence for Government(growth in size and diversity of research community),New Labour and Evidence Based Policy Making(EBPM),New Labour regard EBPM as central to the modernisation of government,Multiple influences on policy but in context of increase in public expenditure and major social and economic development programmes,ambition that evidence should form a key part of the reform process,Review of evidence use by Government,Little of the research commissioned by Government Departments or other academic research appears to be used by policy makers,Prime Ministers Cabinet Office develops strategy:,Policy making must be soundly based on evidence of what works,Improve the accessibility of the evidence available to policy makers,Improve departments capacity to make best use of evidence(training officials in how to interpret,use and apply evidence),EBP Government Strategy,Cabinet Office Policy Hub,Evidence Based Policy Fund strengthening links between universities,research institutes and government(e.g.,EPPI Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Coordination Centre),Economic and Social Research Council programme(see Evidence Network),Campbell Collaboration new collaboration for systematic research synthesis in the social science and policy fields,modelled on the Cochrane Collaboration.,Government Social Research Office oversees use of social research purpose“to provide government with objective,reliable,relevant and timely research to inform policy making and delivery,Evidence of what works,Rules of evidence differ greatly between research cultures(healthcare,education,criminal justice,social care,welfare,housing,transport and urban renewal),Balance between quantitative and qualitative research in assessing what works and what use to make of secondary research,Systematic evidence reviews replacing traditional literature reviews,Primacy given to hard quantitative data,esp.randomised control trials,meta analysis.,UK policy now more informed by evidence,(Better Policy Making,Cab.Office,2001),In UK,evidence based government/policy making well established,Reviews of existing&proposed policies(international policy learning),Commissioning new research/evaluating policy design and impacts by commissioning/undertaking research.Typically:,Expert evidence and systematic evidence reviews(internet),Pilots and case studies,Rapid/Interim evidence assessments,Some Random Control Trials but more typically statistical/econometric net impact studies,Emphasis also on learning from practice gathering evidence from delivery agencies and frontline workers,Evidence Based Policy Making and Welfare to Work Reforms,Department for Work and Pensions(about 80 social researchers work with other analysts-economists,statisticians):,internal research capacity,contracted out research programmes(about 18m,2007),DWP commissions research using a variety of methods large scale surveys,in-depth interviews,experiments,ethnographic methods and analysis of administrative data,Not directly engaged with social theory-the approach tends to be inductive rather deductive work on building up ideas,theories,concepts from the data rather than using data to verify theories.,Development of Welfare to Work policies has been informed by continuous process of research and evaluation major influence of US welfare experiments and evaluation culture,Pathways to Work,New way of engaging with people on disability benefits:,Compulsory Work Focused Interviews with Case Managers,Choices-innovative package of employment and condition management measures,Methodology,Review of Existing Evidence,Integrated,Evaluation with Policy Development and Implementation,Qualitative Interviews(clients,officials,case managers and employers),Administrative Data and Surveys measuring impacts of pilot areas with matched statistical control groups,Local Context Analysis(Qualitative and Quantitative),Economic Appraisal(Cost Benefit Analysis),UK,Employment,Retention&Advancement Demonstrat
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