Supporting evidence informed social policy in NZ

Gail Kelly argues that New Zealand needs to be deliberate in creating a learning system to generate and capture evidence to inform spending decisions for social policy and investment.

Gail Kelly argues that New Zealand needs to be deliberate in creating a learning system to generate and capture evidence to inform spending decisions for social policy and investment. The report A learning system for evidence informed social policy, acknowledges that currently they know relatively little about what works, when, for whom and under what circumstances and don't know which spending is good value for money, which is ineffective and if any is downright harmful. The report considers three possible evidence-informed approaches.