Practice in Need of Evidence

Excellent practice is happening all over the country but, in most instances, without a robust evidence-base. We want to find promising practice and support social care organisations to be more evidence-minded and evaluate their own practice to a high standard through our Practice In Need of Evidence (PINE) programme. Ultimately we hope to find practice that could be successfully shared and scaled more widely.

Our current PINE projects:

Organisation	Project	TIDieR	Logic Model	Evaluation Plan
Brighton and Hove City Council	Early Parenting Assessment Programme (EPAP) Evaluation to understand the value of EPAP; how it influences the assessment process, decision-making and, ultimately, outcomes for parents and their babies	TIDieR	Logic Model	Evaluation Plan
Bath and North East Somerset Council	Adolescent Risk Team (ART)	TIDieR		Evaluation Plan
London Borough of Southwark	Fathers’ Parenting Group Evidence for the effectiveness of the Southwark Fathers Group against a range of outcomes, and to understand whether there are areas for improvement with regards to the delivery and process around the intervention.	TIDieR		Evaluation Plan
Parents and Children Together (PACT)	Adoption Hub Embedding an online support tool into regular practice with adopters during the assessment process , when they are approved and once children are in placement.
Listen Up	Working to Increase Safety in Exploitation (WISE) Evaluating an approach that would enable exploitation services, or wider services responding to young people’s needs, to focus on “creating safety” and improving well being rather than seeking to reduce risk

• Bath and North East Somerset Council,
• Brighton and Hove City Council,
• Centre of Expertise on Child Sexual Abuse and the Greater Manchester Complex Safeguarding Hub,
• London Borough of Barking and Dagenham,
• London Borough of Southwark,
• Parents and Children Together,
• Royal Borough of Greenwich,
• South Tyneside Council,
• Warrington Borough Council,