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How valuable are evaluations?: The need for evaluation of community-based child and family services

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Freda Briggs  and
Shelley Campbell
Freda Briggs
Affiliation:
University of South Australia Magill Campus, Magill SA 5072. Email: [email protected]
Shelley Campbell
Affiliation:
Hamilton, New Zealand
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Abstract

The authors have, jointly and separately, evaluated twenty-five governmentfunded child and family community-based agencies and programs in Australia and New Zealand in recent years. They argue for more rigorous evaluation of these organisations as a tool for the development of the sector and as a requirement for the receipt of substantial funding from government sources. On the basis of their experience, they point to some of the inherent difficulties in evaluating community-based agencies that have no history of external evaluation. Unlike government departments, these agencies often experience the tension of short term, unstable funding which (realistically or otherwise) staff and management link to the outcome of the evaluation.

Type
Research Article
Information
Children Australia , Volume 26 , Issue 2 , 2001 , pp. 7 - 10
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2001

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