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Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the Runway?

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  • Geraldine Macdonald

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British social services departments are a beleaguered species. Political ideology continues to play a major role in shaping policy and practice, despite a change of government. Sheltering beneath the ideological umbrella are more considered views of the need to rethink structures developed as a means of solving social problems and delivering services, some of which have themselves become problematic, some of which are simply too expensive. These influences have combined radically to reframe the roles and responsibilities of many who work face-to-face with service users and carers. It is in this context of change and threat to professional identity that the implementation of evidence-based approaches to policy and practice within social work has to be considered.

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  • Geraldine Macdonald, 1999. "Evidence-Based Social Care: Wheels off the Runway?," Public Money & Management, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 19(1), pages 25-32, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:pubmmg:v:19:y:1999:i:1:p:25-32
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-9302.00149
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    1. Anthony Petrosino, 2003. "Estimates of Randomized Controlled Trials Across Six Areas of Childhood Intervention: A Bibliometric Analysis," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 589(1), pages 190-202, September.
    2. Anthony Petrosino & Robert F. Boruch & Haluk Soydan & Lorna Duggan & Julio Sanchez-Meca, 2001. "Meeting the Challenges of Evidence-Based Policy: The Campbell Collaboration," The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, , vol. 578(1), pages 14-34, November.

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