Outcomes are a key concept both in Every Child Matters and in the planning for outcomes process in Birmingham.  What difference will an activity or service make to children and young people?  What will be achieved and what evidence is there that it has been achieved?

In September/October 2007 and in March 2008 VCS Matters ran a series of seminars on 'Outcomes'.  The key presentations by Liz Hoggarth, Hilary Comfort and Andy Bulman from DeMontfort University Youth Affairs Unit are below.

Further materials are available from the Birmingham Children's Fund Local Evaluation Service Document Archive, and there is a useful book by Hilary Comfort, Capturing the Evidence.