Appendix 2.1 Details of search strategy 17
Professor Helen Roberts, City University
Mike Fisher, Social Care Institute of Excellence
Dr Ann Buchanan, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
Teresa Smith, Department of Social Policy and Social Work, University of Oxford
Professor Kathy Sylva, Oxford Centre for Research into Parenting and Children University of Oxford
Professor Edward Melhuish, Birkbeck College, University of London
Professor Julia Little, Bryn Maw University and Chair of the Campbell Social Welfare Group
2. Searching of websites
National and local government websites in the UK were searched.
A number of specific websites were also searched
• Research in practice for adults (www.ripfa.org.uk/aboutus/archive/)
• Evidence based decision making (www.evidencebased.net/)
• Netting the evidence (www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/ir/netting/)
• Department for education and skills (www.dfespublications.gov.uk)
• Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (http://ojjdp.ncjrs.org/ )
• Social Services Research Group (www.ssrg.org.uk/index.asp )
• The Social Care Institute for Excellence (www.scie.org.uk)
• Centre for Evidence-based Social Services, Exeter University - so far a number of useful reviews are
available on the website (www.ex.ac.uk/cebss/)
• Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV), University of Colorado (www.colorado.edu/cspv/)
• US National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA - website summarising research
(www.drugabuse.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNIndex.html)
• Barnado’s (www.barnardos.org.uk/resources/research_and_publications.htm)
• The Evidence-based Practice Program of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) evidence
reports (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat1.part.88879)
• Bandolier (www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/Bandolier/)
• Joseph Rowntree Foundation: social policy research and development charity: (www.jrf.org.uk)
• Kings Fund (www.kingsfund.org.uk)
• NHS Service Delivery and Organization (www.sdo.lshtm.ac.uk)
• Campbell Collaboration (http://www.campbellcollaboration.org/)
• Social Policy Research Unit (University of York) (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/spru/)
• Centre for Market and Public Organisation (University of Bristol) (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/)