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Tools and Ethics for Applied Behavioural Insights: The BASIC Toolkit
The OECD has developed this toolkit in partnership with Dr. Pelle Guldborg Hansen of Roskilde University. The toolkit provides practitioners and policy makers with a step-by-step process for analysing a policy problem, building strategies, and developing behaviourally informed interventions. BI is increasingly used in policy making to improve understanding of how context, biases and other … Continued
Support DCYA in the implementation of What Works!
We are looking for an organisation to support us in the implementation of the What Works Initiative. If your organisation is interested in playing a significant role in this initiative, please check out the request for tenders we currently have advertised on E-tenders. The reference number for our tender is 152596. The RfT can be … Continued
What Works Launch – How Do We Scale Prevention and Early Intervention? by Dr Patrick McCarthy
Dr Patrick McCarthy is the former president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The Annie E. Casey Foundation is a private philanthropy organisation based in Baltimore, Maryland and working across the United States. The foundation makes grants to help federal agencies, states, counties, cities and neighbourhoods create more innovative, cost-effective responses to the issues that … Continued
What Works Launch – Spotlight: Innovation and Network Funding
The final section of the What Works Launch on 19 June 2019 centered on funding opportunities under What Works: the 2018 Innovation Funding Scheme and the on-going What Works Network Support Funding Scheme. In the following segment, Mary Walsh from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs explains the purpose of these funding schemes and … Continued
What Works Launch – Using Evidence: Theory and Practice
In the following video from the What Works Launch on 19 June 2019, Tom McBride and Dr Suzanne Guerin speak to ‘Using Evidence: Theory and Practice.’ This presentation takes a holistic look at the use of evidence in the context of service delivery, considering how evidence can be used to iterate on the programmes delivered … Continued
What Works Launch – Outcomes for Children Data Hub by Shiela Moore, Tusla
Sheila Moore holds the brief for Data & Management Information in Donegal and Sligo/Leitrim/West Cavan and is based in Tusla West. Sheila is co-leading the What Works Outcomes for Children National Data & Information Hub project along with her colleague Peggy Ryan. The Outcomes for Children Data & Information Hub is an online interactive area … Continued
What Works Launch – Welcome by Dr Katherine Zappone TD, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs
The What Works Launch took place on 19 June 2019 in City Hall, Dame Street, Dublin 2. The event aimed to bring together practitioners, providers, policy makers and researchers working with and for children and young people, including grantees under the previous QCBI Innovation Funding Scheme and the on-going Network Support Funding Scheme. The Minister … Continued
What Works Launch – Introduction by Ruth Doggett, Department of Children and Youth Affairs
Ruth Doggett is Assistant Principal Officer in the Department of Children and Youth Affairs. She has led the What Works initiative from its concept, providing overall direction on the initiative’s four key work strands (data, evidence, professional development and quality). In the following address from the What Works Launch on 19 June 2019, she speaks … Continued
Minister for Children and Youth Affairs launches What Works, a transformative new approach to policy, programmes and practice for children and young people.
The Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, Dr Katherine Zappone TD has today launched What Works a Department of Children and Youth Affairs initiative which aims to maximise the impact of prevention and early intervention to improve the lives of children and young people. What Works will ensure that key groups working with children, young people … Continued