This publication sets out areas where DfE is interested in more research and new evidence2. Given the broad policy agenda of the department it is not practical to provide an exhaustive list of research questions of interest. Instead this is a targeted list of areas which are both key departmental priorities and where we feel the research community is currently well placed to add to our evidence base. In terms of approaches to answer the questions, we are interested in both primary qualitative and quantitative research, secondary data analysis, and literature reviews/synthesis of existing evidence. For all questions we are interested in international perspectives and what has worked, or not, in other countries. For all our questions we are interested in how results differ for relevant sub-groups such as Free School Meal pupils, Pupil Premium pupils, Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) pupils, Black and Minority Ethnic pupils, and gender.
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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
The doctoral research around which my fellowship is centred explored the differences between local authorities in Wales in the rates at which they place children in out of home care, referred to as being a 'looked after'...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: Cardiff University
The project partially answers the question by providing a quantitative analysis of children in out of home care in Wales, but does not specifically address social work assessment, training, and development.
Child protection systems across the English-speaking world have been subject to damning critique in recent decades, to the extent that some commentators conclude that they may be doing more harm than good. A recent UK go...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Edinburgh
The project partially answers the question by focusing on culture change in children and families social work departments, but does not specifically address measuring the benefits of social work assessment, training, and development.
Social work is the lead discipline in preparing social workers, managers and future research leaders within the area of social care, a £20 billion industry in the UK. There is a well established lack of understandi...
Funded by: ESRC
Lead research organisation: University of Bedfordshire
The project partially answers the question by aiming to improve the level of quantitative knowledge and skills within social work graduates, but does not specifically address measuring the benefits of social work assessment, training, and development.