Improving Outcomes for Children and Families: Finding and Using International Evidence
By: A.N. Maluccio, C. Canali, T. Vecchiato, A. Lightburn, J. Aldgate, W. Rose, eds.
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ABSTRACT: Significant amounts of money and resources are spent on child and family services, and successful evaluation of whether or not they are achieving the best outcomes is essential. This edited collection offers an international perspective on the challenges of designing and undertaking outcome-based evaluation of child and family services. With contributions from leading international experts, it introduces the key ideas and issues currently being debated in the evaluation of these services; discusses relevant approaches to designing and using evaluation methods; and provides examples of evaluation from the real world of policy and practice. Issues covered include setting appropriate indicators for service effectiveness, cross-cultural evaluation of service interventions, service user involvement in evaluation, and evaluations of family and community-based services.