Five ways to make measurement of youth provision more meaningful
The Centre for Youth Impact talks about how youth provision measurement can become a meaningful part of working with young people and what are the five ways to make it possible.
For many, matters of measurement in youth provision are a deeply contentious issue. However, I’d argue that, when done well, and in the right circumstances, measurement can become a meaningful part of working with young people that ‘goes with the grain’ of practice.
Over the past few years I’ve worked on two projects that are ambitious in the way they try to tackle the known issues in evaluating youth provision.
- the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) learning project – a shared evaluation of open access youth provision; and
- development of the Centre for Youth Impact’s approach to measurement