1. What is Research in Practice for Adults and how can I use it?
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2. Objectives This presentation will explain:
The Research in Practice for Adults aim
What evidence-informed practice is
What types of resources are available and how to access them via an online account
How to create an online account
How to book on to an event or webinar
Other benefits especially the tailored- support offer

3. Research in Practice for Adults
The aim is to support people working in social care and health to improve outcomes for adults, their families and carers.
Brining together academic research, practice expertise and the experiences of people accessing services to enable professionals across the sector to make evidence-informed decisions about the design and delivery of Adults’ Services.
ripfa was established in 2005 at the request of Directors of Adult Services to help practitioners, managers and leaders to access and utilise evidence in order to improve practice.
ripfa is a not for profit organisation, funded largely by its membership.
Currently there are 30 members who are mainly Local Authorities forming a network around England from Cumbria to Devon.

4. Research in Practice for Adults
What is evidence-informed practice?
Evidence-informed practice combines:
academic research along with
practice experience,
views of people who access services as well as their families and carers
Evidence-informed practitioners
continuously ask questions about what works
search objectively for the best available evidence
take appropriate action guided by that evidence.
Interactions with people, their and families and carers should be evidence-informed, especially in terms of decision making. This includes day to day ‘bread and butter’ work, assessment, support planning, review as well as more complex work like safeguarding, MCA, DoLS etc. It also applies to strategic side of things e.g. development of support or services, evaluation or review, and actual delivery of support or services.

5. Research in Practice for Adults
You can watch a short film about evidence-informed practice here This might be useful for sharing at meetings, team events, forums, practice development sessions etc.

6. Research in Practice for Adults
Research in Practice for Adults provides a range of evidence- informed resources and learning opportunities
We have organisational membership
With your work address you can create a free account at ripfa.org.uk
Once registered, you can access all resources via, and download them electronically
Hard copies of resources are sent to us at regular intervals over the year
The more we use Research in Practice for Adults, the better value for money it represents
You need to have an online account to be able to book places on events as well as download resources so it’s really important you register to get the most out of what’s available. If you don’t already have an account register as soon as you can. We need everyone signed up!

7. Resources Events: Workshops, knowledge exchanges, webinars
Tailored support: one to one hours to use as we choose
Publications: practice tools and handbooks, key issues, evidence reviews, policy scopes, frontline and strategic / leaders briefings, customer guides
Research and Policy Updates: monthly horizon scanning
Website: access to all of the above 24/7 that you can personalise with a ‘MyRiPfA’ page
Discussion Forum: to facilitate sharing between partners

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Events
Learning and development opportunities at venues across the country.
A calendar of the latest events can be viewed on the Ripfa website.
Places on events can be requested via the website. All requests go via the Link Officer who can Accept or Decline the request.
If a request is accepted all admin and communication for the event is handled by Research in Practice for Adults. They will send out a confirmation and joining instructions.
Places are limited to 1 or 2 per authority depending on the event but RiPfA operate a waiting list system. If there are places available 2 weeks before an event places will be allocated from the waiting list.

9. Publications: Frontline Briefing
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Publications: Frontline Briefing
In-depth exploration of specific topics, along with recommendations for best practice to support evidence- informed service delivery.
Ideal for individual or team CPD sessions
Good Decision-Making – Practitioners’ Handbook
(with accompanying Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Literature Review)

10. Publications: Practice Tools
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Publications: Practice Tools
Tools to support practice
Include reflective tools, learning logs and action plans
Can be used by individuals or teams for learning, reflection and training
Practice Tools look at the ‘how to’ support practice.
For Example:
Supporting good assessment
Evidence informed practice and decision making
Involving people with dementia
Getting the most out of supervision
How to get learning into practice
Providing good information and advice
How to run a journal club
The Good Decision Making handbook and Good Assessment handbook are also practice tools

11. Publications: Practice Tools
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Publications: Practice Tools
Provide in depth detail on a particular topic
Amalgamate research evidence, practice experience and messages from users and carers with key guidance and the law
Essential practice development resource for practitioners and managers
Handbooks include:
Good Assessment – Practitioners’ Handbook
(with the accompanying Supporting Good Assessment Practice Tool)
Good Decision-Making – Practitioners’ Handbook
(with accompanying Evidence-Informed Decision-Making Literature Review)

12. Leaders / Strategic Briefings and
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Leaders / Strategic Briefings and
A broad overview to support evidence- informed decision- making
Help provide context and direction to service provision and improvement
Aimed at Councillors, Trustees, Elected Members and Directors
Provide short summaries of essential policy and research messages on key topics for service improvement, together with questions for reflection.
Aimed at senior managers and leaders.
For example:
Maximising independence for people with dementia (Cllrs Briefing and Strategic Briefing)
Personalisation and managing the market (Policy Briefing)
Safeguarding Adults (Policy Briefing)
Self-neglect (Strategic Briefing)
Self-directed Support (Cllr Briefing)
Building Community Capacity (Strategic Briefing and Cllr Briefing)

13. Supporting outcomes-focused practice – a suite of resources
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Supporting outcomes-focused practice – a suite of resources
Wrap around resources to support and inform:
Frontline staff / practitioners
Operational managers
Strategic managers / leaders
The public
Wrap around 360 degree support for your organisation.
Comprehensive set of resources to support outcomes-focused practice, including:
Making an outcomes approach work in practice (Key Issue)
Outcomes-focused adult social care (Councillors Briefing)
Working with Outcomes (Practice Tool)
Customer Guide – What are outcomes?
Tailored Support menu workshop – Using an outcomes approach in social care
The next RiPfA change project ( ) will be on embedding an outcomes approach. Change projects are based on action research and involve around 12 to 16 Partners who meet over a number of months to explore an issue and develop and pilot resources which are then made available to our network.

15. Safeguarding adults – a suite of resources
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Safeguarding adults – a suite of resources
Wrap around resources to support and inform:
Frontline staff / practitioners
Safeguarding teams / managers
Operational managers
Strategic managers / leaders
The public
Wrap around 360 degree support for your organisation.
Comprehensive set of resources, including information on safeguarding adults for the public, frontline staff, practitioners and colleagues with strategic oversight of safeguarding policy. It includes:
Safety Matters: The essential handbook
Safety Matters: Practitioners’ handbook
Customer Guide: What is safeguarding adults?
Customer Guide: What is the Mental Capacity Act 2005?
Customer Guide: What are the Deprivation of Liberty Standards?
Safeguarding Adults: Policy Scope
Strategic Briefing: Safeguarding adults
Strategic Briefing: Self-neglect

16. Examples of previous events
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Examples of previous events
The Care Act
Supporting adults with multiple needs and exclusions
Getting an outcomes approach into practice
Approaches to personalisation across the lifespan
Involving people with dementia
Promoting emotional resilience in social work teams
Learning events are run in a variety of formats including:
Conferences
Research messages workshops
Knowledge exchange workshops
Online webinars (usually one hour over lunch-time)
Telephone knowledge exchanges (again about one hour)
All events build in time for discussion, questions and action planning

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Events feedback
Involving People with Dementia ‘Discussions enlightening and inspirational’ ‘Fantastic training, increased my knowledge and confidence of involving people with dementia in my everyday work’ Getting an outcomes approach into practice ‘Very informative and inspiring’

18. Webinars Presentations delivered over the internet.
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Webinars
Presentations delivered over the internet.
Point out the video screen showing the presenter, the slideshow and the chat box below the video screen.
Key points on webinars
Sessions are delivered live online with room for up to 100 participants
Places can be requested via the website in the same way as events
Participants will be ed a link to access the webinar which includes system requirements. It is strongly recommended to do a test before participating.
Format is usually 30 minute presentation followed by 30 minute Q&A with participants posting questions via the text chat box
All webinars are recorded and can be viewed at any time after the live event via the Ripfa website
You can watch these on your own or you could book out a room and show them with a projector and speakers
If anyone asks, the webinars use Adobe Connect software

19. Previous webinars Care Act expert webinar
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Previous webinars
Care Act expert webinar
Getting the most out of RiPfA resources
Ensuring effective assessment on the frontline
Supporting adults with multiple needs and exclusions
Making the RAS work
Involving users and improving commissioning
All of these are available to watch on the website

20. Tailored Support – menu workshops
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Tailored Support – menu workshops
Promoting emotional resilience in social work teams
Implementing the Care Act
Finding and appraising research
Evidence-informed decision-making
Reflective practice and supervision
Implementing successful change
Analysis and critical thinking in assessment
Engaging and involving users
Getting an outcomes approach into practice
Working preventively in adult social care
Each partner agency receives two-days tailored support per year from Ripfa. This can be delivered as a workshop from a menu or to deliver a more bespoke piece of work.
Workshops are arranged between the Link Officer and Research in Practice for Adults. Everyone can see the list of workshops on the website so you may or may not want to encourage people to look at the list and get suggestions to you as Link Officer.

21. Tailored Support – bespoke
For example, you could use this support to:
Find out what research says on a particular topic
Hold a bespoke workshop
Exchange knowledge with other organisations
Retain organisational learning when people are moving
Carry out an evaluation
Develop your strategy for using evidence.
These are just examples. If you have an idea please contact your Link Officer in the first instance who can put you in touch with Ripfa.

22. E-bulletin & Research & Policy Updates
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E-bulletin & Research & Policy Updates
Keep up to date with what's new from Research in Practice for Adults with monthly e-bulletins. To subscribe go to
Subscribe to the Research and Policy Updates (RPU) which is themed around implementing the Care Act. To subscribe go to

23. Benefits Supports evidence-informed decision making
Access to key research messages in various formats
Provides evidence for PCF, HCPC, ASYE, CPD etc
Cutting edge training from expert facilitators
Represents organisational commitment to supporting evidence-informed practice
Forthcoming events calendar can be viewed under ‘Events’
More about Tailored Support can be found under ‘Our Services’
All resources can be downloaded from the Ripfa website, you just need to create an account.

24. Creating an account Go to www.ripfa.org.uk/account
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Creating an account
Go to
Follow on-screen instructions to start using Research in Practice for Adults today
They must use their .gov address
Essential information is name, , organisation and job title
Username = their address
Password = password of their own choosing
After filling in the form they will get an . They must click on the link in this to activate their account

25. Quotes
"Stimulating ideas/ learning and networking" The Care Act Expert Webinar – Nov 14 “Ensuring effective assessment on the frontline”. I just wanted to feedback how valuable, well presented and informative [these resources] are… it couldn’t have come at a better time.” Oct 2014
"A really good range of perspectives from acknowledged experts." Councillors’ and Trustees’ Seminar 2014 “Discussions enlightening and inspirational” Involving People with Dementia workshop Nov 14

26. Contact details Your Link Officer [Insert Link Officer Details] Research in Practice for Adults
@ripfa