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💡 Supporting Children and Young People Impacted by Domestic Abuse 🧡 Operating across 8 boroughs in London, this provision provides one-to-one trauma-informed, early intervention support to children and young people aged 11-24 impacted by domestic abuse. A recent evaluation exploring impact and best practice found the following to work best: ✅ Safe Spaces: This provision gives young people a space to talk openly about their feelings. ✅ Personalised Support: Every situation is different so sessions are tailored and focus on specific needs. ✅ Trusted Adult: Young people work with the same key worker for up to 20 weeks, which helps to build trust and familiarity. 🔗 Find out more and read the full report on our Evidence Hub: https://bit.ly/4cA7lQZ

This month's Cordis Pulse includes the first findings from the systems-wide evaluation of homelessness and rough sleeping, delivered by Cordis Bright in partnership with CHI and RSM. It's the first time a government has taken this kind of whole-systems approach to evaluating homelessness policy - and there's a lot in it. The emerging findings echo what many in the sector have been saying for a long time: there's still too much focus on crisis response, and not enough on prevention. If we want to make real progress, cross-government coordination and a shift in where effort and investment is focused will be key. The next phase of the evaluation will dig further into how and where meaningful change can happen, and it'll be interesting to see how government engages with these findings - particularly given how politically tricky long-term, preventative reform can be. Plenty more to explore in this month's Pulse too: https://lnkd.in/edB29NAs

Here's March's edition of the Cordis Pulse - a digest of key policy and research developments in children's services, adult social care and criminal justice. It includes updates from Centre for Homelessness Impact, The Health Foundation, Education Policy Institute, Solace Women's Aid, Department for Education and Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB). https://lnkd.in/edB29NAs

Spent yesterday at the Children & Young People Now Evaluation, Evidence & Impact conference. One session that really stuck with me was Fiona Richardson's talk on how research evidence fits (or doesn't fit) into commissioning. She painted a realistic (and v familiar) picture. Despite formal processes, commissioning is often shaped more by budgets, staffing, local politics and practical constraints than by structured evidence reviews. When there's churn in staff or limited time to engage with guidance, research can easily get lost in the noise. It was a good reminder to think about what can help bring evidence back into focus. Champions who signpost colleagues to relevant tools, leadership that builds an evidence-informed culture, and above all, motivation - hearing directly from others that "this worked for us" can have far more influence than the most rigorous study. At Cordis Bright, we spend a lot of time thinking about this - not just how to generate strong evidence, but how to make it land. It's not enough to produce robust findings - we need to support commissioners to build a culture where evidence is part of everyday decision-making, and to use research with confidence.

🚀 New report published! 🚀 We’re excited to share our evaluation of the Shaping Places for Healthier Lives (SPHL) England programme – a three-year initiative (2021–2024) funded by the The Health Foundation and delivered with the Local Government Association. SPHL supported five local authority-led teams to apply complex systems approaches to tackle public health challenges in their local areas, including food security, mental health, and fear of violence and crime. As independent Learning & Research Partners, Cordis Bright, PPL and Cobic explored how these teams developed their own complex system approaches with a view to creating long-term, system-wide change. 🔎 Key insights: ✅ Complex systems approaches can be impactful: A complex system approach can be applied to systems of different sizes and configurations. ✅ Taking a complex system approach is challenging: It’s especially hard to create the time to step back and reflect on the system as a whole, when local authorities and their partners are under so much pressure to deliver. ✅ Challenges can be overcome with the right support: With the right mix of skills and attitudes in the project team, a supportive local policy environment and back from strategic system leaders, it is possible to apply complex system approach to public health challenges. The learning from SPHL England provides a roadmap for future initiatives supporting the use of complex system change approaches. 📩 We bring considerable expertise in systems thinking. Are you interested in systems change evaluation? Drop us a line at info@cordisbright.co.uk. 👉 Read the full report at https://lnkd.in/e-Ya4s4j

A very warm welcome to our newest corporate partner, Cordis Bright and Chairman Tom Noon, Managing Director Colin Horswell, and the rest of the team! For more than 25 years, Cordis Bright has provided research and consultancy services to independent sector care providers. VODG and Cordis Bright have often collaborated, most recently on the report by Cordis Bright, commissioned by VODG, which highlights the impact of the budget on third sector providers of disability support. https://lnkd.in/eG39tzPk #VODGPartner #Research #Consultancy #ExpertGuidance #Welcome

Cordis Bright is delighted to be partnering with VODG (Voluntary Organisations Disability Group), a trusted leader in the voluntary sector, dedicated to enabling disabled people to live the lives they choose. VODG and Cordis Bright have a track record of collaborating to produce insightful policy analysis, including recent work examining the potential impacts of ENIC changes. At this challenging moment for the voluntary sector partners who work alongside people with disabilities, we’re looking forward to working together with VODG and its members. We will be contributing our research, evaluation and consultancy skills to provide the robust evidence and practical insights to support its important work. https://lnkd.in/e3_CCz4y

We are pleased to have contributed to this first report from the system-wide evaluation on homelessness and rough sleeping. This is the first of its kind globally to take a whole-government approach to exploring the effects of policies and practices on homelessness.

Here's February's edition of the Cordis Pulse, a digest of recent policy and research in the sectors in which we specialise. https://lnkd.in/e5bDyycV

And some more special mentions as part of Cordis Bright's LGBTQ+ History Month 2025 film festival...