You are invited to a half-day joint seminar between the Alliance for Useful Evidence and Wales Public Services 2025 entitled ‘What Works Wales’ on Friday 17 May 2013 at Wales Millennium Centre, Bute Place, Cardiff Bay, Cardiff CF10 5AL. Registration and a sandwich lunch will be provided from 12.00.
The event will focus on whether Wales could be a leader in Europe as an experimental lab championing evidence-based policy and public sector innovations. Using its size and close connections between policy makers, practitioners and academic institutions, Wales could set a new standard for how public services experiment and apply ‘what works’. The aim of this seminar is to generate discussion regarding how we could make this happen.
The Alliance for Useful Evidence champions the use of evidence within social policy and practice. We are an open access network of more than 1000 individuals and organisations from across government, universities, charities, business and local authorities and are funded by the BIG Lottery, the ESRC and Nesta. The Wales Public Services 2025 programme looks at the economic, social, environmental and demographic pressures which will confront Wales over the next 10-20 years, focusing on the future of public services. To achieve this, the programme is working with a number of partner organisations, amongst whom are Cardiff Business School, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and The Bevan Foundation.
Confirmed speakers include:
- Sir Adrian Webb, Chair of Wales Committee, BIG Lottery Fund – Event Chair
- Dr Ruth Hussey, Chief Medical Officer, NHS Wales – Keynote Presentation
- Professor Gareth Rees, Director of WISERD
- Dr Victoria Winckler, Director, The Bevan Foundation
- Professor George Boyne, Pro-Vice Chancellor of Cardiff University
- Dr John Parkinson, Director of The Wales Centre for Behaviour Change
The event is open to all Welsh Members of the Alliance as well as key academics, policy makers, commissioners and voluntary sector representatives working on evidence-based policy and social practice for Wales.
The seminar is free but it is essential to register in advance via the following link: http://whatworkswales.eventbrite.com/. A more detailed programme will be provided in advance of the event.
The event will be held in the Victor Salvi room and directions to the Wales Millennium Centre can be found here: http://www.wmc.org.uk/yourVisit/GettingHere/.
We do hope you will join us on 17 May at 12.00.
Best wishes,
The Alliance team