Evaluation of the Anti-Social Behaviour Programme

 

 

Barefoot Research and Evaluation is currently evaluating Safe Newcastle's Anti-Social Behaviour Programme, funded by the Neighbourhood Renewal Fund. This is a formative evaluation which is constantly improving projects to tackle anti-social behaviour by feeding the results back to project leaders.

 

We believe this is a way of adding value to projects by making independent evaluation part of the project development and delivery process. This is contrasted to seeing an evaluation at the end of a project, when delivery has finished.

 

The Anti-Social Behaviour Programme is made up of seven parts, including: an arts development project; a bus for delivering detached youth work; work in primary schools around actions, behaviour and consequences; a private sector tenancy enforcement project; victim support; mediation; and a public health and environmental protection project.

 

We carry out research with project beneficiaries and frontline staff and regularly feed this back to project coordinators and the Anti-Social Behaviour Tactical Group, which governs the programme. This allows for project development and improvement and often consists of 'challenge meetings' between evaluator and project staff.

 

This embeds the evaluation within the programme and adds value to services and ultimately improves the quality of service that local communities receive. Having an independent evaluator who runs alongside projects and constantly feeds back is greatly appreciated by project leaders.

 

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