Opening access to administrative data for evaluating public services: The case of the Justice Data Lab

Lyon, Fergus; Gyateng, Tracey; Pritchard, David H.; Vaze, Prabhat; Vickers, Ian; Webb, Nicola

doi:10.1177/1356389015577507

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“…A range of favoured approaches recommended for use by the UK’s Medical Research Council to evaluate “complex” public health interventions (Craig et al , 2008) include systematic reviews, realist evaluation and quasi-experimental investigation. However, such evaluation approaches have rarely been applied in the context of social enterprise (Calò et al , 2018; Lyon et al , 2015). Before turning to our analysis of these three approaches, a brief overview is provided of the context in which the research has been conducted.…”

Section: Evidencing the Impact Of Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This is particularly ironic given the supposed centrality of “evidence-based policy” to health and social care (Kemm, 2006; Smith, 2013). While a plethora of robust methodological frameworks have emerged to evaluate interventions in health and social care, with a view to informing policymakers on their effectiveness (Byford et al , 2010; Kah and Akenroye, 2020), such methods have rarely been tested in the realm of social enterprise (Lyon et al , 2015) and there have been calls for more peer-reviewed empirical studies using a broader range of study designs (Hervieux and Voltan, 2019; Milley et al , 2018).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Evidencing the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: approaches and considerations

Caló

Roy

Donaldson

et al. 2021

SEJ

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Purpose As the provision of public services in many advanced welfare states has increasingly come to be marked by competition, social enterprises have actively been encouraged by governments to become involved in the delivery of public services. While the evaluation of complex public health interventions has arguably become increasingly more sophisticated, this has not been the case where social enterprise is concerned: evaluation of the actual impacts of social enterprises remains significantly underdeveloped by comparison. This study aims to support the establishment of a robust evidence base for the use of social enterprise as a policy instrument. Design/methodology/approach This paper assesses the potential of three methodological approaches common in the evaluation of complex public health interventions and applies them to the complex realm of community-led social enterprise. Findings Only through the involvement of different comparator groups, based on the research questions addressed, would it be possible to disentangle the embedded characteristics of organisations such as social enterprises. Each of the methods adopted in this research is time-consuming and resource-intensive and requires the researcher to possess advanced skills. Public officials should recognise the complexity and resource-intensive nature of such evaluation and resource it accordingly. If the aim of policymakers is to understand the added value of social enterprise organisations, an integrative research approach combining different research methods and design should be implemented to improve generalisability. Originality/value This study applies a range of favoured approaches to evaluate “complex” public health interventions include systematic reviews, realist evaluation and quasi-experimental investigation. However, such evaluation approaches have rarely been applied before in the context of social enterprise.

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Section: Evidencing the Impact Of Social Enterprisementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Evidencing the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: approaches and considerations

Caló

Roy

Donaldson

et al. 2021

SEJ

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“…Probation, as with other aspects of the justice system, begins with a crucial advantage over many other sectors – data. Although there are things that are measured which are vitally important to understanding ‘what works’ in a probationary context, many things, including re-offending and re-conviction rates, are already accessible to outside researchers and organisations through the Ministry of Justice ‘Data Lab’, which, combined with a commitment to greater transparency and rigour, could shoot Probation to the top of the leaderboard in terms of evidence-based policy (Lyon et al, 2015).…”

Section: Opportunitiesmentioning

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A What Works Centre for Probation: Challenges and possibilities

Sanders

Jones²,

Briggs

2021

Probation Journal

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The What Works Movement in the UK Government has seen the establishment of 12 centres to focus on evidence-based policy in different domains. In this paper, we present the challenges and opportunities posed by a What Works Centre (WWC) for Probation, based on our prior experience of establishing WWCs in other areas. Although there are legitimate and substantial challenges to some of the methodological approaches of ‘What Works’, we conclude that Probation is in an unusually strong starting position for such a centre to thrive.

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“…Similar to open government initiatives, open justice initiatives generate vast quantities of data and information. Open justice opens up all of these data for further analysis and review through a "big data" research agenda (Lyon et al, 2015).…”

Section: Open Justice Ecosystemmentioning

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Collaborative Network Governance Framework for Aligning Open Justice and e-Justice Ecosystems for Greater Public Value

Chatfield

Reddick

2018

Social Science Computer Review

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An ecosystem is a complex system of interdependent subsystems. The disjointed open justice ecosystem and the e-justice ecosystem, if they fail to coevolve and adapt to changing environments, contribute to the conundrum of understanding enablers and inhibitors for public value creation. Drawing on the formal system theory and the literature review, we developed a collaborative network governance framework for aligning ecosystems and creating public value. This framework is applied to guide case study research to identify enablers and inhibitors of strategic alignment and public value creation in the Federal Court of Australia context. We found evidence for collaborative network governance in facilitating court judges and practitioners to assimilate e-justice subsystems in open justice practice, with impacts on enhanced operational efficiency and service level. These realized economic and social values in turn provided the federal court with political return on investments in digital transformation of the court services and the legitimacy of open justice practice.

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Opening access to administrative data for evaluating public services: The case of the Justice Data Lab

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Evidencing the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: approaches and considerations

Evidencing the contribution of social enterprise to health and social care: approaches and considerations

A What Works Centre for Probation: Challenges and possibilities

Collaborative Network Governance Framework for Aligning Open Justice and e-Justice Ecosystems for Greater Public Value

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