Personal Social Services of the UK in the 21st Century -Finding guideposts for Japan-

1989年《儿童法案》颁布后，英国对儿童社会服务进行了重组，在单一制度下提供家庭支持、儿童保护和儿童保育。进行这项调查是为了观察重组的过程和结果，特别是与循证实践的关系，并检查对日本服务的适用性。研究结果如下：许多研究证明重组是成功的，并确定了一些进一步的任务。20世纪80年代以后出现的循证实践在政策制定、实施和审查过程中产生了重大影响。日本的儿童服务结构与英国不同，但在一些地方政府（如横须贺市）正试图建立类似的结构。利用循证实践原则审查这些实验性服务提供的结果，将为日本进一步发展服务提供更准确的建议。

After legislation of Children Act in 1989, social services for children in the U.K. were reorganized to provide family support, child protection and child care under the single system. This survey had carried out to observe the process and outcomes of reorganization especially concerning relationship with evidenced based practice, and examine applicability to the services in Japan. Findings are the followings.1. Reorganization has been proved successful by many researches and some further tasks had been identified.2. Evidenced based practice emerging after 1980's has been giving significant influence either in policy making, implementing and reviewing process.3. Japanese services for children shows different structure from the U.K. but in some local Governments (e.g. Yokosuka City) are trying to build resemble structure. Examining the outcomes of those experimental service provision using principles of evidenced based practice will provide more accurate suggestions for further service development in Japan.