Athens - Social Care Institute for Excellence view details
SCIE Athens provides easy access to high quality academic and research resources to help inform best practice and support continuing professional development.
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Barnardo's view details
Barnardo's Home Page provides information on the organisation and includes a publications section, including details of their policy research material and their useful 'What Works' series. This is an excellent series of research reviews on a range of topics relevant to children and families.
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BERA – the British Educational Research Association view details
The aim of the Association is to sustain and promote a vital research culture in education by encouraging an active community of educational researchers, developing and independent research culture and by promoting co-operation and discussion between the range of stakeholders concerned with educational research. The site contains a number of valuable resources – ethical guidlelines on conducting educational research, useful links and academic research reviews.
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California Evidence-Based Clearinghouse for Child Welfare view details
The CEBC provides child welfare professionals with easy access to vital information about selected child welfare related programs. Each program is reviewed and rated utilizing the CEBC Scientific Rating scale to determine the level of evidence for the program. The programs are also rated on a Relevance to Child Welfare Rating Scale.
The CEBC website's simple and straightforward format enhances the user's ability to conduct literature searches, review extensive literature, or understand and critique research methodology. The website features brief and detailed summaries that provide salient information on each reviewed program.
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Campbell Collaboration view details
The Campbell Collaboration is an emerging international initiative, that aims to promote well-informed decisions by preparing, maintaining and promoting access to systematic reviews of studies on the effects of social and educational policies and practices.
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Centre for Evidence Based Child Health view details
Great Ormond Street Hospital Trust and the Institute of Child Health, London established the Centre for Evidence-Based Child Health, in 1995 as a part of a national network of Centres for Evidence-Based Health Care. The Centre's activities build on the experience and expertise of the Centre for Paediatric Epidemiology and Biostatistics and on the clinical links with Great Ormond Street Hospital. The overall aim of the Centre is to increase the provision of effective and efficient child health care through an educational programme for health professionals.
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Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s services view details
The Centre for Excellence and Outcomes in Children and Young People’s Services (C4EO) is a new organization with the responsibility of identifying and coordinating local, regional and national evidence of ‘what works’, to create a single and comprehensive picture of effective practice in delivering children's services. Using this information, C4EO will offer support to local authorities and their Children’s Trust partners, working with them to improve outcomes for children, young people and their families.
It will focus its work on six national themes identified in Every Child Matters. These are: early years; disability; vulnerable children (particularly children in care); youth; parents, carers and families; and schools and communities.
C4EO is a consortium of leading national organisations: National Children’s Bureau (NCB), National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), Research in Practice (RiP) and the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE). The Centre is also supported by a number of strategic partners, including the Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA), the Family & Parenting Institute (FPI), the National Youth Agency (NYA) and the Institute of Education (IoE).
C4EO is funded by the Department for Education
(DfE).
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CERUK view details
CERUK (Current Educational Research in the UK) is a database, sponsored by NFER, DCFS and the EPPI Centre (The Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre), that seeks to include all recently completed and ongoing research into education in the United Kingdom, from large sponsored programmes to individual projects. It gathers information from all institutions where educational research is undertaken.
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Children's Services Network view details
The Children's Services Network (CSN) was launched in 2006 by the LGIU in 1997, to help develop, promote and disseminate the role and good practice of local authorities in the delivery of education. The site contains helpful set of regularly updated policy and research briefings and other publications.
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Cochrane Collaboration view details
This site provides systematic overviews of the effects of health and social care from a range of international collaborating centres. You can get free access to the Review Abstracts and the site links to the websites of other Cochrane Centres and Groups. Though the focus is largely on clinical effectiveness there are some reviews and resources, which are particularly relevant to child welfare
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