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Research ReportNo 783Local Evaluation ofChildren’s ServicesLearning from the Children’s FundThe National Evaluation of the Children’s FundThe views expressed in this report are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect those of the Departmentfor Education and Skills.© The University of Birmingham 2006ISBN 1 84478 776 1
Page 1: RESEARCHLocal Evaluation ofChildren
Page 5 and 6: AcknowledgementsNECF would like to
Page 7 and 8: 4.1 Key Messages from Local Evaluat
Page 9 and 10: learning for policy makers and prac
Page 11 and 12: about processes such as the effecti
Page 13 and 14: 25. A number of local evaluation re
Page 15 and 16: 33. Understandings of ‘prevention
Page 18 and 19: IntroductionAims, scope and methods
Page 20 and 21: These shifts in thinking are widely
Page 22 and 23: Chapter 1: Roles and Principles of
Page 24 and 25: • Providing sets of recommendatio
Page 26 and 27: Similarly, a Wave One partnership r
Page 28 and 29: eports tend to provide affirmation
Page 30 and 31: conducted rigorously in terms of sy
Page 32 and 33: Independent, balanced accounts of p
Page 34 and 35: It is not possible to accurately qu
Page 36: 4. Some evaluators have actively su
Page 39 and 40: depth interviews were then carried
Page 41 and 42: een notable improvements in school
Page 43 and 44: initiative such as the Children’s
Page 45 and 46: suggest with some confidence that C
Page 47 and 48: ich source of data regarding perspe
Page 49 and 50: example. Further efforts, such as a
Page 51 and 52: seen as making the questions evalua
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then trying to encourage discussion
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developed self-evaluation tools thr
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model and the notion of using evalu
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motivated rather that based on loca
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legitimacy of qualitative methods a
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multiple roles at different stages
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Chapter 4: Prevention, Participatio
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order to provide effective preventi
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Nevertheless, participation in prac
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dimensions to partnership working.
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and that in many localities, local
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4. Evaluators identified diverse de
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ConclusionsLocal evaluators have re
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ReferencesBecker, S. and Bryman, A.
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