- Title Pages
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The politics of evaluation: an overview
- One Below decks on the youth justice flagship: the politics of evaluation
- Two Urban regeneration: who defines the indicators?
- Three Reaching for the stars: the performance assessment framework for social services
- Four Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations
- Five Best Value but not best interests: can service users instruct mental health advocates?
- Six New Deal for Communities as a participatory public policy: the challenges for evaluation
- Seven Discovery through dialogue and appreciative inquiry: a participative evaluation framework for project development
- Eight Evaluating projects aimed at supporting the parents of young people: “I didn't learn anything new, but …”
- Nine Evaluating interagency working in health and social care: politics, policies and outcomes for service users
- Ten Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
- Eleven Evaluating a partnership approach to supporting people into employment
- Twelve Evaluation and the New Deal for Communities: learning what for whom?
- Thirteen Community-led regeneration: learning loops or reinvented wheels?
- Fourteen Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work?
- Fifteen Learning the art of evaluation: presume the presence of politics
- Conclusion: What the politics of evaluation implies
- Index
Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
- Chapter:
- (p.153) Ten Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
- Source:
- The politics of evaluation
- Author(s):
Susan Balloch
Alison Penn
Helen Charnley
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
This chapter evaluates projects designed to ease ‘winter pressures’. It explains that the study was carried out on the cusp of change, as Primary Care Trusts were forming and central government was shifting the goalposts for ‘capacity planning’ in health and social care. It explains that whatever the methodological preferences of evaluators, it is probably only possible to engage in participatory evaluation to the extent that the project under scrutiny has attempted to involve users.
Keywords: partnerships, participatory evaluation, primary care trusts, capacity planning, health care, social care
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- Title Pages
- List of tables, figures and boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Preface
- Introduction: The politics of evaluation: an overview
- One Below decks on the youth justice flagship: the politics of evaluation
- Two Urban regeneration: who defines the indicators?
- Three Reaching for the stars: the performance assessment framework for social services
- Four Service-user involvement in evaluation and research: issues, dilemmas and destinations
- Five Best Value but not best interests: can service users instruct mental health advocates?
- Six New Deal for Communities as a participatory public policy: the challenges for evaluation
- Seven Discovery through dialogue and appreciative inquiry: a participative evaluation framework for project development
- Eight Evaluating projects aimed at supporting the parents of young people: “I didn't learn anything new, but …”
- Nine Evaluating interagency working in health and social care: politics, policies and outcomes for service users
- Ten Reflections on an evaluation of partnerships to cope with winter pressures
- Eleven Evaluating a partnership approach to supporting people into employment
- Twelve Evaluation and the New Deal for Communities: learning what for whom?
- Thirteen Community-led regeneration: learning loops or reinvented wheels?
- Fourteen Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work?
- Fifteen Learning the art of evaluation: presume the presence of politics
- Conclusion: What the politics of evaluation implies
- Index
