Blog post. Experience and Evidence - Where the Twain Meet

Over recent decades there has, quite rightly, been a stronger emphasis on ‘evidence-based’ practice in service planning, resource allocation and professional practice, in social care services and more broadly. While the application of evidence to practice is rarely straightforward, it is reasonable to expect that politicians and policy makers are aware of a range of different sources of evidence when introducing new policies and are able to weigh up the comparative significance of these.