Reflective practice and evaluation: most significant change

18^th Sept 09.30-12.30 (online) Free
30 places are available in this session. Places will be allocated on a first come, first allocated basis.

What is DEEP? 
DEEP is a co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods. 

The importance of stories of change

Outcomes-focused evaluation is promoted, particularly in services and programmes focused on change and improvement. For instance, the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework requires services to gather evidence of people’s outcomes. Gathering change outcomes in ways that are meaningful can be challenging. People’s stories are a powerful way to explore and learn from people’s outcomes and Most Significant Change (Davies and Dart, 2005) is an approach to gathering and exploring change outcomes through stories.    

This session

This half-day session introduces the essentials of the Most Significant Change approach. It will outline the principles and practice of gathering Most Significant Change stories and detail how to explore and learn from these stories in story selection panels.  

Who might benefit from the session?

The session will be of interest to people working in social care who support evaluation, especially those working in services, courses or programmes that are focused on change and/ or improvement. The session will particularly benefit people who implement the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework.   

Further information about the session.

If you would like to find out more about the session, please contact Nick Andrews at: n.d.andrews@swansea.ac.uk