Tuesday, 13 November 2012

Evaluating social services to death: more participation less evaluation



Another post with my thoughts on issues raised by the new Spanish social work journal, Azarbe.

One of these articles demands social work academic thinking to be more strongly evidence-based but another raises an interesting question: is the constant demand for programme evaluation an imposition on people who are running and receiving services? Many service users complain or being researched to death, when what they really want is participation in planning and running services. This might be much more effective in improving services than producing yet another lot of service evaluation reports that everyone reads and does little about.

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