What do I need to know and where can I find it?

What is evidence?

There are many different types of evidence source, for example:

• Ourselves and colleagues – drawing on personal experiences
• Good practice recommended by colleagues, or in reports following inspection
• Management data/information
• Action research
• Evaluation and research

eep and the Evidence Support Programme (ESP) are primarily concerned with helping you find, understand and use evidence collected from structured evaluation and research activities ( including practitioner led research).

Making evidence-informed decisions means finding, understanding and using evidence that is relevant, robust and unbiased. Finding this evidence begins with deciding:

• what you need to find
• where you think you will find it
• how to search for it