Generating Evidence and Promoting Improvement

The Group discussed recent Hearings-related research and agreed that research findings had not been shared effectively with partners across the System or acted upon fully. 

Partners agreed the working group should consider:

• Promoting “evidence” in our improvement programmes.
• Gaps in our research activity and scope to commission and support future activities in this area .
• The balance between quantitative vs qualitative data and ensuring the prominence of lived experience of children and young people.
• How we maximise evidence, data and knowledge and increase its potential to impact positively on practice and outcomes.

CHAIR: Boyd McAdam (Children’s Hearings Scotland) boyd.mcadam@chs.gsi.gov.uk