Evidence Reviews

"Thank you so much for the evidence review, we are thrilled to bits with the work that you have done, it is exactly what we wanted and it meets the brief in every way".

Commissioner, Barnardo’s

DMSS combine research expertise with policy knowledge and hands-on experience of managing and delivering services in a complex environment.

We produce succinct reviews of evidence to inform policy and practice on a wide range of topics.

Examples include:

For the Department of Education:

• Head teachers' use of evidence
• Leadership in special schools
• Commissioners’ use of evidence
• What influences teachers to change their practice?
• Leadership in faith schools

For Barnardo’s and Coram:

• What works in achieving adoption for looked after children

For the Centre for Expertise in Child Sexual Abuse:

• Key messages from research on child sexual abuse in institutional contexts
• Key messages from research on intra-familial child sexual abuse
• Key messages from research on children and young people who display harmful sexual behaviour
• Supporting Parents of Sexually Exploited Young People

For the Royal Foundation:

• Tacking youth violence including knife crime – what’s the evidence?

For Lankelly Chase:

• Women and Girls Facing Severe and Multiple Disadvantage
• Women and Girls at Risk: Evidence Across the Life-course

Other policy analysis work has included:

• The State of London’s Children report, DMSS 2007
• Di McNeish’s contributions to the Independent commission on social mobility, 2009
• Marmot Review of Health Inequalities, 2010