How can you prove that your services for young people actually work? Funders and commissioners increasingly demand evidence that youth projects can achieve “hard” outcomes, such as reducing crime or boosting school attendance.
Meanwhile, youth workers have often found it difficult to quantify the results of their practice, which tends to focus on hard-to-measure personal development skills.
But many in the sector are realising that opting out of the measurement game is no longer a viable option. The reality is that by doing so, youth work, with its principles of voluntary engagement and self-development, could lose out on funding, despite the fact it may have a transformative effect on young lives.
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