Journal of Children's Services: Volume 3 Issue 1
Research informing policy and practice
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Random assignment in programme evaluation and intervention research: questions and answers
Mark Dynarski, Patricia GrossoThis brief article seeks to answer, with examples, some of the more common questions that policy‐makers and practitioners in children's services often ask about randomised…
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The politics of random assignment: implementing studies and impacting policy
Judith GueronThis article presents lessons from social experiments in the US over 30 years testing employment and training, welfare reform and social service programmes and systems. It…
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Social work in the UK: a testing ground for trialists
Geraldine MacdonaldThis article examines the history of social work research within the UK from a perspective of evidence‐based practice, as originally advocated in the 1990s. It reviews the…
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A dark art comes to the water‐cooler: a review of some key texts on RCTs for children's services professionals and researchers
Tim Hobbs, Matthew Carr, Marc Holley, Nathan Gray, Nick AxfordThe need for randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to support evidence‐based services to improve outcomes for children is increasingly recognised by researchers and policy‐makers…
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ISSN:
1746-6660e-ISSN:
2042-8677ISSN-L:
1746-6660Online date, start – end:
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Emerald Publishing LimitedOpen Access:
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- prof Emily Munro