Our mission is to promote the use of evidence-informed practice in the planning and delivery of adult social care services.

Our purpose is to help our Partners use evidence from research and other sources to improve outcomes for service users and carers.

Our aims are to:

• develop effective models of research utilisation

• create networks that will enable Partner agencies to share each other’s experiences

• incorporate the knowledge and experience of social care practitioners into learning programmes

• build expertise in integrating service user views into our operations and those of our Partners

• commission new reviews of research where significant gaps are identified

• promote better research utilisation strategies within national policy and practice frameworks

Our delivery methods will include learning events, information exchange networks, team and corporate change projects, research briefings, website products and a bespoke response service to Partner queries. In addition, activities and products outside this core menu will be built in response to Partner needs. While research in practice for adults and research in practice will serve different networks, our co-location and shared focus on research utilisation will enable us to develop joint work on themes that cross child and adult service boundaries.

There will be six strands to our work:

• learning events
• network exchange
• publications
• the research in practice for adults website
• change projects
• joint programmes with research in practice