Liz Hoggarth formerly worked as a senior manager of local authority youth, community and play services and latterly as a senior research fellow of the Youth Affairs Unit at De Montfort University, Leicester. Hilary Comfort is an associate lecturer at De Montfort University and the Open University and teaches Higher Education at Leicester College. Liz and Hilary have been heavily involved in writing and training on outcomes evaluation, especially for those working with children and young people in statutory and third sector organisations.

This book is groundbreaking: it contains twenty or thirty short rough example descriptions from various fields of social work or child welfare, and makes tangible what it means to impement outcome evaluation.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Why Should I Want to Evaluate? 2. Why Is Outcome Evaluation So Crucial? 3. Identifying Outcomes. 4. So How Do I Start and What Do I Need to Think About? 5. Thinking about Ethics. 6. What Do I Need to Know to Answer the Key Evaluation Questions? 7. How Do I Get that Information? 8. Evaluation Tools and How to Use Them Effectively. 9. Analysing and Presenting Your Findings. 10. The Pros and Cons Of the Outcome Focus. Conclusion. Appendix A. Examples and Checklists to Help You. Appendix B. Useful Websites. Glossary. References. Index.

Liz Hoggarth formerly worked as a senior manager of local authority youth, community and play services and latterly as a senior research fellow of the Youth Affairs Unit at De Montfort University, Leicester. Hilary Comfort is an associate lecturer at De Montfort University and the Open University and teaches Higher Education at Leicester College. Liz and Hilary have been heavily involved in writing and training on outcomes evaluation, especially for those working with children and young people in statutory and third sector organisations.

This book is groundbreaking: it contains twenty or thirty short rough example descriptions from various fields of social work or child welfare, and makes tangible what it means to impement outcome evaluation.

• Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Why Should I Want to Evaluate? 2. Why Is Outcome Evaluation So Crucial? 3. Identifying Outcomes. 4. So How Do I Start and What Do I Need to Think About? 5. Thinking about Ethics. 6. What Do I Need to Know to Answer the Key Evaluation Questions? 7. How Do I Get that Information? 8. Evaluation Tools and How to Use Them Effectively. 9. Analysing and Presenting Your Findings. 10. The Pros and Cons Of the Outcome Focus. Conclusion. Appendix A. Examples and Checklists to Help You. Appendix B. Useful Websites. Glossary. References. Index.