and commissioners since work that can demonstrate results is more likely
to gain funding. Joe Lepper covers all the essentials in this A to Z
guide.
With austerity measures continuing to shackle public spending, children's services providers are facing increasingly tough competition for sources of funding. Cash-strapped local and central government commissioners have made it clear they will focus children's sector funding on providers who come armed with robust evaluation to show their work improves young lives.
Family Nurse Partnerships, a scheme that has been evaluated extensively for decades in the US and more recently the UK, is among a number of recent evaluation success stories. As a result, the government in Westminster ploughed £17.5m into the scheme in 2013.
The financial impetus to provide strong evidence of success is clear, but Children England chief executive Kathy Evans warns evaluation should not only be to attract commissioners and donors.
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