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4Children launches framework for children’s centres

The charity 4Children has launched the first evidence and measurement framework for children’s centres to demonstrate their positive impact.

The framework, ‘Measuring what matters: a guide for children’s centre’s', is designed to support children’s centres to maximise their full potential by bringing together a range of measures to enable centres to successfully track children’s progress.

Written by the University College of London’s (UCL) Institute of Health Equity, it builds upon the 2012 report ‘An equal start’, by Professor Marmot, which identified 21 important outcomes children’s centres should be striving for, by providing ways to measure for the outcomes.

The framework aims to provide a unitary way for children’s centres to measure outcomes, after research carried out by the authors revealed that centres use different interventions and some have a tendency to measure outputs rather than outcomes.

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