Can study tours help promote evidence-based practice in children's services?

Axford, Nick, Jonas, Matt, Berry, Vashti Louise, Green, Vicky and Morpeth, Louise (2010) Can study tours help promote evidence-based practice in children's services? European Journal of Social Work, 13 (4). pp. 523-543. ISSN 1369-1457

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13691450903471237

Abstract

Interest in evidence-based programmes and the science underpinning them has mushroomed in the UK and Ireland in recent years as policy-makers and senior managers seek tried-and-tested methods of improving child well-being. This article examines whether study tours, a form of experiential learning, can help to promote evidence-based policy and practice in children's services. Participants on two study tours to the United States in 2005 to visit evidence-based programmes and their developers were interviewed by telephone 30–36 months later. Results are presented in terms of: (1) what participants felt they were exposed to on the study tours; (2) how the tours had changed their thinking; (3) what impact the tours had in terms of actions; (4) the factors that affected the impact of the study tours; and (5) the value added by the study tours over and above other means of learning about evidence and evidence-based services


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