Impact of AssetPlus: Using Impact Evaluations to Improve Outcomes

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Impact evaluations can show what factors are affecting your outcomes and how to improve those outcomes. This post looks at Get the Data’s impact evaluation of changes in the youth justice system in England and Wales. You go to a friend’s house for dinner, and she serves the best chilli you’ve ever had. It’s so […]
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Making a Difference With Data – Evaluating Outcomes

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A New View Of Youth Justice Evaluation is a powerful tool for ensuring that your organisation makes the right changes for the right reasons. Jack Cattell writes about changes to the UK’s approach to youth justice over the last 15 years and his experience of measuring and evaluating those changes. For nearly 15 years, I […]
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Tell Me What You Want, What You Really, Really, Want

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Hard to believe that it is 25 years since the Spice Girls recorded “Wannabe”, and with it the launch of the “girl power” phenomenon. A catchy tune for all of us “Dad Dancers” out there, but what has it to do with (the more serious) topic of social impact measurement and non-profits? Well, at the time Posh, Ginger, Sporty, Scary and Baby were storming the charts, I was settlin
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The Disproportionate Representation of BAME Young People in Custody

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GtD specialises in youth justice and we are aware of the disproportionate representation of BAME young people in custody as was identified in the Lammy Report. We commissioned an article in partnership with CYPN to understand why BAME young people are over-represented in the custody population.
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