Evaluating for Good Practice

With the changing political economy of social welfare evaluation has become prevalent in the personal social services and voluntary sector organisations. This text argues that rational-technical and pluralist models of evaluation may collude with new managerialism to act as powerful processes of control. Alternative critical models of evaluation which take account of power are explored so as to enable practitioners to take responsibility for evaluating practice both in order to inhibit poor or even corrupt practice and to promote good practice.