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Harnessing the Power of Data to Improve Family Justice: A New Nuffield Family Justice Observatory For England and Wales
Family Court Review Pub Date : 2019-07-01 , DOI: 10.1111/fcre.12428
Karen Broadhurst , Teresa Williams

A pilot Family Justice Observatory for England and Wales is being launched in Spring 2019. Its overarching aim is to address concerns about the limited and uncertain place of empirical evidence in the family justice system. The Observatory will focus on providing intelligence about how the system is working, especially through the accelerated use of electronic population level data on family justice cases. Drawing on collaborative relationships between data providers and users, as well as policy and practice colleagues, the Observatory will improve collective understanding of the needs of children and families and how they are met by the family justice system. I liken the present situation to one where an individual who is learning to become a proficient darts player is instructed to throw the darts behind him, over his shoulder, without any sight of the dart board and without anyone telling him whether he had even hit the wall, let alone the board or the bulls eye. (Lord Justice McFarlane, 2017, p.18). This article provides readers with an introduction to an important new innovation in England and Wales, which is the Nuffield Family Justice Observatory. Currently under development, the new Observatory will be launched as a pilot in the spring of 2019 (Broadhurst, Budd, & Williams, 2018b). The overarching aim of the new Observatory will be to support the best possible decisions for children by improving the use of data and research evidence in the family justice system in England and Wales. Its development and pilot phase are being funded by the Nuffield Foundation, a private charitable trust whose mission is to advance social well‐being, including through facilitating evidence‐based change within the justice system. The Foundation's decision to invest in this new initiative is based on long‐standing concerns that research evidence has a limited and uncertain influence on family justice policy and practice (Genn, Partington, & Wheeler, 2006; Rodgers, Trinder, & Williams, 2015), yet the decisions that are made in the family courts have a lifelong effect on children and their families. In common with a number of comparable international jurisdictions, valuable national data produced routinely by organizations (administrative data) are insufficiently exploited by researchers and analysts, and even when high‐quality research evidence has been produced, it does not readily influence the front line (Jay, Woodman, Broadhurst, & Gilbert, 2017). The vision for the new Observatory is that it will be a collaborative project: researchers, analysts, policy makers, frontline practitioners, and organizations representing children and families will work together to identify priority issues for new data analysis or evidence synthesis; they will have access to, and help interpret, new data analyses and reviews of high‐quality research; and they will coproduce protocols and guidance to inform practice. Following the launch of the pilot, this range of functions will be tested to establish the impact on the family justice system. In this article, we introduce this important Nuffield initiative and describe the background to this project. We then summarize important insights from a scoping study commissioned by the Foundation to inform the remit and design of the new Observatory (Broadhurst et al., 2017b). The final sections of the report outline the vision for the new Observatory and provide a detailed overview of the program of work, already underway, to create access to and build capability in the use of large‐scale controlled administrative data. The role that the new Observatory will play to harness the potential of population‐level data is potentially groundbreaking given that the field of family justice has not, thus far, been central to national or international initiatives to accelerate the use of administrative data. It holds out the promise of effecting step‐change in the generation of better intelligence about how the family justice system is working, in the context of pressing concerns about both transparency and effectiveness of family justice policy and practice.

中文翻译:

利用数据的力量改善家庭正义:英格兰和威尔士的新纳菲尔德家庭正义观察站

英格兰和威尔士的试点家庭司法观察站将于 2019 年春季启动。其首要目标是解决对家庭司法系统中经验证据有限和不确定位置的担忧。天文台将专注于提供有关该系统如何运作的情报,特别是通过加速使用有关家庭司法案件的电子人口水平数据。借助数据提供者和用户以及政策和实践同事之间的协作关系,观察站将提高对​​儿童和家庭需求以及家庭司法系统如何满足这些需求的集体理解。我把目前的情况比作一个正在学习成为一名熟练的飞镖运动员的人被指示将飞镖扔到他身后,越过他的肩膀,没有看到飞镖板,也没有人告诉他他是否撞到了墙壁,更不用说飞镖板或靶心了。(麦克法兰大法官,2017 年,第 18 页)。本文向读者介绍了英格兰和威尔士的一项重要新创新,即纳菲尔德家庭司法观察站。目前正在开发中,新天文台将于 2019 年春季作为试点启动(Broadhurst、Budd 和 Williams,2018b)。新观察站的首要目标是通过改善英格兰和威尔士家庭司法系统中数据和研究证据的使用,支持儿童做出最佳决策。它的开发和试验阶段由纳菲尔德基金会资助,这是一个私人慈善信托,其使命是促进社会福祉,包括通过促进司法系统内的循证变革。基金会投资这项新举措的决定是基于长期以来的担忧,即研究证据对家庭司法政策和实践的影响有限且不确定(Genn, Partington, & Wheeler, 2006; Rodgers, Trinder, & Williams, 2015) ,然而在家庭法院做出的决定对儿童及其家庭具有终生影响。与许多可比的国际司法管辖区一样,组织常规产生的有价值的国家数据(行政数据)没有被研究人员和分析人员充分利用,即使产生了高质量的研究证据,也不容易影响前线(杰、伍德曼、布罗德赫斯特和吉尔伯特,2017 年)。新天文台的愿景是成为一个合作项目:研究人员、分析师、政策制定者、一线从业人员以及代表儿童和家庭的组织将共同努力,确定新数据分析或证据综合的优先问题;他们将能够访问并帮助解释高质量研究的新数据分析和评论;他们将共同制定协议和指南,为实践提供信息。试点启动后,将测试这一系列功能,以确定对家庭司法系统的影响。在本文中,我们将介绍这一重要的 Nuffield 计划并描述该项目的背景。然后,我们总结了基金会委托进行的一项范围界定研究的重要见解,以告知新天文台的职权范围和设计(Broadhurst 等人,2017b)。报告的最后部分概述了新天文台的愿景,并详细概述了已经在进行的工作计划,以建立对大规模受控行政数据的使用的访问和能力。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。报告的最后部分概述了新天文台的愿景,并详细概述了已经在进行的工作计划,以建立对大规模受控行政数据的使用的访问和能力。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,因此新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面所发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。报告的最后部分概述了新天文台的愿景,并详细概述了已经在进行的工作计划,以建立对大规模受控行政数据的使用的访问和能力。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。已经在进行中,以创建对大规模受控行政数据的使用和建立能力。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。已经在进行中,以创建对大规模受控行政数据的使用和建立能力。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。鉴于迄今为止,家庭司法领域尚未成为加速使用行政数据的国家或国际举措的核心,新观察站在利用人口层面数据潜力方面将发挥的作用可能具有开创性。在对家庭司法政策和实践的透明度和有效性的紧迫关注的背景下,它有望在产生关于家庭司法系统如何运作的更好情报方面实现逐步变革。
更新日期:2019-07-01
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