Consult, monitor and evaluate
Code of Practice Statement: Ask pupils, parents and carers, teachers and volunteers to help us judge how well the school is doing, and plan how to improve its service.
SPECIAL DISTINCTION STANDARD: Evaluation, involving young people and parents, and based on best practice in other supplementary schools, leads to targets for improvement being set and feeds into the development planning process.
You may wish to include:
- development/action plan (with input from pupils, parents, staff and volunteers)
- samples of evaluation forms and reports
- minutes from management meetings
- targets and evaluation evidence.
Other resources
The Learning Exchange: the consultation page in the Learning Exchange library contains a number of useful links for consulting with children and young people, as well as parents.
Finance Hub: voluntary and community organisations have to provide funders and regulators with accounts of their activities that explain what has been achieved and how funds have been used. As with financial accounting, monitoring and evaluation of your project involves accounting for the work that you have done. For help and advice please visit: www.financehub.org.uk/funding_fundamentals/monitoringandevaluation/default.aspa
Charities Evaluation Services: the UK's leading provider of support and advice on quality and evaluation systems for the voluntary sector. For information about monitoring and evaluation please visit: www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=40
Outcomes are the changes that you can attribute to your organisational or project activities. These can be intended or not intended, positive or negative, and you may have set indicators for these. For more information visit: www.ces-vol.org.uk/index.cfm?pg=579
Big Lottery Fund - Understanding self evaluation