National and Local Steps to Mobilise Evidence

Colleagues from across children’s services are invited to join a Virtual Learning Café run by the Youth Endowment Fund. This is part of our Evidence in Practice series, which sits alongside our Toolkit giving you opportunity to hear from policy experts and practitioners on relevant research and practice.

The session will focus on driving the use of evidence, on a national and local level.

Speakers

• Sonia Beard, Senior Policy Adviser at Foundations
• Jo Flanagan, Senior Practice Development Adviser at Foundations
• Louise Bazalgette, Deputy Director of a Fairer Start Mission at Nesta
• Rob Newton, Local Evidence Leader at City of York Council
• Kathryn Lord and Louise Ashwell at Cordis Bright

The event will run online using MS Teams on Tuesday 2nd December 2025, 14:00-15:30.