Bulletin: April 2008
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New GSR Rapid Evidence Assessment toolkit now on-line
This new toolkit provides easy-to-use guidance on the use of Rapid Evidence Assessments (RAEs). RAEs provide quick summaries of what is already known about a policy or practice and the new toolkit will help GSR members use this increasingly popular technique to provide timely answers to questions.
GSR research outputs
Communities and Local Government (CLG)
Department for Communities Schools and Families
Department for Work and Pensions
- In-work Support: Qualitative Findings -
a qualitative research report on the In-Work Support (IWS) component of the ‘Pathways to Work’ incapacity benefit reform pilots which provides in-depth accounts of customer and staff experiences. The research forms part of a comprehensive independent evaluation of ‘Pathways to Work’.
Other research outputs
Equalities and Human Rights Commission and Local Government Association
Joseph Rowntree Foundation
- Impact of benefit and tax uprating on incomes and poverty - each year, the Government decides how much to raise benefits and tax allowances. The basis for these upratings is rarely debated, yet has major long-term consequences for the relative living standards of different groups and for public finances. This research considers the implications of present uprating policies, and aims to stimulate debate on this hidden area of policy-making.
National Audit Office
OFSTED
- Developing financially capable young people - this report identifies features of good practice in personal finance education.It examines the case for personal finance education being part of the curriculum for all 11-18-year-olds and considers current weaknesses in provision and the barriers to future development. It makes a number of recommendations to improve personal finance education.
Scottish Government
HM Treasury
Work and pensions committee
Other news
Joint Committee on Human Rights
- 14th report - following a number of major lapses in the protection of data for which the Government is responsible this report highlights the importance of data protection as a human rights issue.
Lord Goldsmith QC
- Citizenship review - the history of legislation on citizenship and nationality has led to a complex scheme lacking coherence or any clear and self-contained statement of the rights and responsibilities of citizens.This report discusses measures to address that and makes a range of proposals that touch every stage of an individual's life.
Public Net
- Using evidence: where have we go to and how do we go forward? - the clamour for evidenced based policy can be heard world wide. In the UK policies emerging from departments must have an evidence base. Sandra Nutley, Professor of Public Management, University of Edinburgh and Director of the Research Unit for Research Utilisation (RURU), describes how a better understanding about social programme implementation, client experiences of those programmes, and the sources and causes of implementation failure are having an impact.
Sustainable Development Research Network
- Report on Health & the Environment Workshop - this SDRN Expert Scoping Workshop took place in Edinburgh on 21-22 February 2008. The workshop brought together some of the UK's leading experts on health and the environment to discuss how SDRN could best contribute to this important research area.
Australian Policy Online
Mathematica
- Semi-monthly update 13 March 2008
Contents include:
- Preventing childhood obesity
- Academic achievement of youth involved with the juvenile justice system
- Semimonthly update 27 March 2008
Contents include:
- Mathematica to Lead Two Major Charter School Evaluations
- Building Strong Families: Who Is Participating?
- Missouri's Career Ladder Teacher Incentive Program: Does It Affect Student Achievement
- Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics Article Discusses Random Assignment in Education Research
- After-School Program's Effects on Behavior Reviewed in Economic Inquiry
- Semimonthly update 8 April 2008
Contents include:
- Impacts of Abstinence Education on Teen Sexual Activity, Risk of Pregnancy, and Risk of Sexually Transmitted Diseases
- The Truncation-by-Death Problem: What To Do in an Experimental Evaluation When the Outcome Is Not Always Defined
Sustainable Development Commission
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