This is a short guide for professionals from APOF around evidence and quality when working with offenders' children and families. It introduces the need for and tensions around evaluating services which work with this group. It suggests different recognised approaches to measuring the impact that services have (such as the four pillars approach) and stresses the importance of measuring against soft targets as well as for key outcomes. There are some examples of measurement tools as well as a section which advocates the importance of quality staff and good training. In the appendix there is a list of general tools for working with families including the outcomes star and adult wellbeing scale.
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