Evidence based policy why is progress so slow and what can be done about it? Gruen updated
Channel: Analysis & Policy Observatory (APO)
Date: 2017-12-22

Plenary session from the APO Forum 2017
Chair: Denise Meredyth | Pro Vice-Chancellor, University of South Australia
Speaker: Dr Nicholas Gruen | CEO, Lateral Economics
‘Evidence-based policy’ rolls off the tongue, but if it was as easily done as said, we’d have it by now. Yet, in all manner of government-funded service delivery areas, there has been literally billions of dollars wasted. From vocational education and training (VET), to child protection, to programs intended to benefit Indigenous people, evidence-based policy has been agonisingly slow for numerous interconnected reasons.