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Local evaluation support
Reference group

reference group NDC local evaluations

As part of its commitment to ensuring effective learning from the NDC National Evaluation, the Reference Group was established to enable evaluation officers and others within partnerships to critically engage with the National Evaluation and to provide input on the dissemination of its findings.

Terms of Reference

The group will:

Provide a forum for discussion of national and local evaluation issues;
Enable practitioners to inform and influence evaluation priorities and methodologies;
Provide feedback on proposed outputs of the National Evaluation;
Advise on the selection of issues for case studies and cross-cutting studies;
Inform other NDCs on how they can best use the findings of the National Evaluation and data that is being collected;
Provide context and narrative for the National Evaluation – the NET is unable to look at all partnerships in detail;
Inform ways findings/outputs are disseminated by the evaluation team and the NRU – understanding different audiences and how to communicate with them;
Disseminate evaluation messages – inside and outside NDCs; among other evaluation officers;
Inform the choice of policy areas to study – RG members can bring understanding of the relevance of timing evaluation outputs and how studies will be received/used by NDCs; could be 4-6 areas that NDCs doing worst on, which would have most useful lessons;
Identify local evaluations that can contribute to NE, particularly policy studies;
Help the NET make decisions on particular issues – e.g. evaluating VFM.

The group will meet three times per year and communicate between meetings.

The group’s activities will be communicated to other NDCs and stakeholders via the National Evaluation’s quarterly newsletter, its website, and the programme of learning and dissemination events. Other means may also be identified.

We have already received some names for the reference group, but if you would like more information or to get involved, please contact Jamie Robinson by telephone on 020 7756 7607 or email: jamie.robinson@sharedintelligence.net.

Sarah Donnelly eb4u Project Support Officer Tel: 296734 The Wellsbourne Centre Fax: 01273 291024 Sarah.Donnelly@eb4u.org.uk	Susan Hampshaw NDC Evaluation Unit Manager Doncaster Central PCT White Rose House Ten Pound Walk Doncaster, DN4 5DJ 01302 320111 ext 4005 susan.hampshaw@doncasterpct.nhs.uk
Richard Crisp and Joy Thompson New East Manchester / New Deal for Communities 187 Grey Mare Lane Manchester, M11 3ND Tel: 0161 223 1155 r.crisp@manchester.gov.uk	Jackie Toyne Monitoring & Evaluation Manager Burngreave New Deal for Communities (Sheffield) Tel: 0114 292 0458 jackietoyne@bndfc.co.uk
Steve Broome Evaluation and Strategy Manager New Cross Gate NDC Unit D Hatcham Mews Business Centre New Cross London, SE14 5QA Tel: 020 8314 7191 Fax: 020 8314 3022 steve.broome@lewisham.gov.uk	Melanie Carr Evaluation Strategy Manager New Heart for Heywood NDC Partnership 31 Bridge St Heywood, OL10 1JF Tel: 01706 694516 Melanie.Carr@heartofheywood.org
Walsall's New Deal for Communities Blakenall Village Centre Thames Road, Blakenall Walsall, WS3 1LZ Tel: 01922 712858, Fax: 01922 473480	All Saints and Blakenhall Community Development Partnership Suite A2 (Annexe) St John's House, St John's Square Wolverhampton, WV2 4AT Tel: 01902 556 747 Fax: 01902 556 752
Hull NDC Awaiting further details Bridie Rawlings Evaluation Support Officer bridie.rawlings@kuhregen.org