New Clinks project | Improving your evidence: supporting Voluntary and Community Sector organisations to understand the impact they have in reducing reoffending

This short email is to alert you to a new project Clinks is running, and opportunities for you and your organisation to get involved.

Between April 2013-14 Clinks will be working with New Philanthropy Capital (NPC) to support Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) organisations working in criminal justice to improve their capacity to undertake and/or commission research and evaluation. 

You can read NPC’s press release about the project here.

We know you are increasingly being asked to produce good quality evidence of the effectiveness of your services. NOMS' Commissioning Intentions and the Transforming Rehabilitation proposals both place emphasis on 'evidence based commissioning'. This can be tricky for small organisations that may not have the resources or expertise needed for research and evaluation. This project will support voluntary and community sector (VCS) organisations working in criminal justice to identify, produce and use good quality evidence which will help you to evaluate what works—and what doesn’t work—with offenders.

SURVEY

• What VCS organisations working in criminal justice are currently doing on research and evaluation; 
• The issues on which criminal justice VCS organisations would like support; and 
• The type of support needed

EVENTS

Improving your evidence

• discuss with criminal justice Voluntary and Community Sector organisations and commissioners what makes good evidence
• share and learn about effective monitoring and evaluation techniques and ways of overcoming the challenges and barriers to this 
• provide an opportunity to feed into designing the support we provide to organisations as part of this project.

CONTACT DETAILS