Seeking to inform the Care Quality Commission’s approach to assessing and encouraging improvement cultures whilst maintaining a strong regulatory role, this review explores the role and characteristics of good improvement cultures and the enablers and barriers influencing improvement in health and adult social care.

This article explores the use of ratings in regulatory contexts and outlines why ratings are a useful tool for regulators as well as for consumer protection, using three examples of ratings programs in action.

This report describes some of the key characteristics of the Tasmanian out-of-home care system, and provides data about the experiences of children and young people in care for 2020-2022.

The author of this guide suggests that the establishment of the Australian Centre for Evaluation (ACE) seems a positive step to building evaluation capacity within the Australian Government. However, time will tell the extent to which it can lead to improved public policy decisions.

This paper provides an analysis of the Belgian federal government’s practices regarding the institutionalisation, quality and impact of policy evaluations. The paper takes a holistic approach, which not only looks at individual practices, but also at how those can come together so that evaluation becomes an integral part of the policy cycle.