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Charity to lead development of strengths-based evaluation tool

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A children’s charity is working with a social research organisation to develop an evaluation tool that measures the abilities of young people rather than their problems.
Vanessa Longley: exclusions ‘just pass the problem on’. Picture: Chance UK
Longley: 'Sector needs to find new ways of evaluating impact that are asset based'. Picture: Chance UK

The project, a collaboration between Chance UK and Dartington Service Design Lab, aims to create an asset-based attainment measuring tool that service providers can use when working with disadvantaged children. 

Although still in its early stages, Chance UK has already secured some funding for the project and around 100 organisations have expressed a willingness to pilot the evaluation tool.

Speaking at CYP Now’s Evaluation, Evidence and Impact conference in London, Chance UK chief executive Vanessa Longley said the sector needed to find new ways of evaluating impact that are asset based. 

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