The debate at Young People Now's Youth Matters conference last month on whether too much emphasis is placed on recorded and accredited outcomes in youth work was a timely one. It coincided with the end of the first year of operation of Best Value Performance Indicators (BVPI) to measure youth work outcomes.
It also coincided with an announcement by The National Youth Agency that it will stop funding its IT management information tool YouthBase in two years' time, amid growing recognition that services are struggling to accommodate the demands placed on them for data collection (YPN, 5-11 April, p3).
Until last April, only one of the 250 BVPIs used to measure local authority performance related to youth services; BVPI 33, which measured the amount of money spent per 13- to 19-year-old.
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