CES Annual Review 2010

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Project title: Supporting the Children’s Services Committees Initiative (P002)

Title: Learning from the Pasts to Inform the Future
Authors: Katie Burke, Principal Fellow, CES, Stella Owens, Senior Fellow, CES and Dr Deborah Ghate, Director, CES

Background: The Centre for Effective Services (CES) was asked by the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (OMCYA), part of the Department of Health and Children in Ireland, to assist with, and advise on, the strategic development of Children’s Services Committees (CSCs). The purpose of CSCs is to secure better developmental outcomes for children through more effective integration of existing services and interventions at local level.

The policy context for CSCs is the current national social partnership agreement, Towards 2016. This report provides findings emerging from the initial phase of the Children’s Services Committees in Ireland.

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Project title: Supporting the Children’s Services Committees Initiative (P002)

Title: An introductory guide to the key terms and interagency initiatives in use in the Children’s Services Committees in Ireland
Author: Stella Owens

Background: This document provides an introduction to the sources and origins of key terms and interagency initiatives in use in the Children’s Services Committees in Ireland. It is not intended to be comprehensive of all terms and initiatives relevant to CSCs at this stage, but rather a starting point which we hope will be added to with suggestions from CSC stakeholders, as the work on CSCs progresses.

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Project title: Multi-Agency Initiative

Title: A review of international evidence on interagency working, to inform the development of Children's Services Committees (2011)
Author: June Statham, Thomas Coram Research Unit for the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, via CES.

Background: This review was commissioned to inform the Department of Chidlren and Youth Affairs plans for a national roll out of these committees and their approaches to interagency working. The review was carried out in close collaboration with the Centre for Effective Services.

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Project title: Review of the Local Development Social Inclusion Programme (LDSIP) and the Community Development Programme (CDP) (P001)

Title: Effective Community Development Programmes, a review of the international evidence base.
Author: John Bamber, Stella Owens, Heino Schonfeld, Deborah Ghate and Deirdre Fullerton

Background: On the 21st of September 2010 CES published Effective Community Development Programmes, a review of the international evidence base. This review tells us about the key principles of effective policy and practice in publicly funded community development programmes. To order a free copy please contact office@effectiveservices.org and quote P001 Evidence Review.

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Title: Key messages from Effective Community Development Programmes, a review of the international evidence base.
Author: John Bamber, Principal Fellow, CES

Background: This publication summarises the key messages from the literature in relation to four aspects of the community type programme – management, design, delivery and evaluation.
 
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Title: Effective Community Development Programmes. An executive summary from a review of the international evidence.
Author: John Bamber, Principal Fellow, CES, Stella Owens, Senior Fellow, CES, Heino Schonfeld, Deputy Director, CES and Dr Deborah Ghate, Director, CES

Background: This summary is a preliminary output from the final Evidence Review on Effective Community Development Programmes. It highlights key findings from the first part of the first phase of the review project: a rapid review of the international evidence on the key principles of effective practice in large-scale community and local development programmes.

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Author: John Bamber, Principal Fellow, CES

Background: The information provided in the Technical Report supplement the main report by detailing the data accessed during the review process. As well as meeting the requirements for transparency regarding sources, it is intended that the information should also be of use to a range of users including policy makers, researchers, managers and practitioners.

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Project title: Development of the What Works ProCESs and Tools

Title: Development of What Works ProCESs and Tools for Working with Clients (P202)
Author: CES 

Background: In January 2011 The Centre for Effective Services launched the What Works Process and Tool, a comprehensive multi-dimensional review of the extent to which a service is currently working in evidence-informed ways.