Seminar Series – Policy Issues

Project Background

The Centre for Effective Services is committed to hosting a range of seminars covering the main areas of its work. These seminars will be an important part of the way that the Centre contributes to the development of effective policy and services for children and communities. The overall theme of the first policy seminar series, hosted by CES, was “Evidence-informed policy for children, families and communities”. This seminar series was targeted at senior civil servants in government departments in Ireland. The focus of this seminar series has been identified following consultation with key stakeholders and funders.

Project Outputs

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June 2010 Seminar 1

Theme: Developing evidence-informed policy for children, young people, their families and communities

Presentation by Cathy James and Helen Jones, UK policy makers from the Department of Health and the Department for Education, and policy leads for two major evidence-based programmes being piloted in England - powerpoint presentation available here - download

Dr. Karen Blase, Senior Scientist in the Frank Porter Graham Child Development Institute at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the Co-Director of the National Implementation Research Network, and a federally funded centre for scaling-up evidence based practices in education - powerpoint presentation available here - download

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February 2011 Seminar Series 2

Theme: Making evidence-informed policy for children, families and communities: an economic perspective

Arlene Lee, Associate Director with the Centre for the Study of Social Policy in Washington DC. Arlene is responsible for public policy work at the CSSP, which helps federal and state elected officials develop policies, funding and practice to help assure better results for children and families - powerpoint presentation available here - download

Professor Jennifer Beecham, Professor of Health and Social Care Economics at the University of Kent and Principal Research Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences. Jenni is an authority on the subject of costs and outcomes of human services and has been responsible for some of the most important studies developing the field of economic evaluation in the UK
- powerpoint presentation available here - download

Podcast interviews with Arlene Lee and Jenni Beecham