The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Roderic O’Gorman, has announced a second Open Call for submissions for inclusion on the What Works Ireland Evidence Hub which provides information about prevention and early intervention programmes that have been evaluated and shown to improve outcomes for children and young people.

This second call for submissions builds on the September 2022 call, which led to five Irish programmes being evaluated and added to the What Works Ireland Evidence Hub when the Evidence Hub was launched in May this year.

The Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth continues to work with Foundations, formerly known as the Early Intervention Foundation (EIF), to expand the What Works Ireland Evidence Hub . The Evidence Hub is a project under the What Works Initiative, which is funded through the Dormant Accounts Fund and supports the use of evidence in early intervention and prevention policy and practice for children and young people. The What Works Ireland Evidence Hub supports policy makers, service commissioners and providers across a range of policy and service areas in their decision making about services for children and young people.

The Evidence Hub provides details on prevention and early intervention programmes that have been evaluated and show some evidence of improving outcomes for children and young people.

Submissions are now sought from providers of prevention and early intervention programmes used in Ireland, who wish to have their programmes included in the What Works Ireland Evidence Hub. The Open Call for submissions runs until Thursday 7th December 2023. More details on the Open Call and how to apply can be found here .

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