Developing an Outcomes Framework and Measures Database for Foundations
Client: Foundations: What Works Centre for Children and Families
Partners: The Brilliant Club, the Association for Young People’s Health (AYPH)
Duration: 2025 – 2026
Geography: England
Solutions: Organisational Learning and Growth, Measurement
We worked with Foundations, the What Works Centre for Children and Families in the UK, to develop their Outcomes Framework and a Measures Database aligned with that Framework.
The Outcomes Framework articulates the measurable changes that Foundations seeks to achieve, while the Measures Database brings together tools and data sources that can be used to assess those outcomes in practice.
Together, these resources will help Foundations make strategically aligned funding decisions, communicate priorities to partners and support evaluators and researchers in measuring outcomes and impact more consistently and effectively.
We also hope the Measures Database will become a useful resource beyond Foundations, supporting the wider wider sector to identify and weigh up measurement options for outcomes relating to babies, children and young people, and their caregivers and family networks.
Key Activities:
Desk review of existing outcomes frameworks
Rapid literature review of systematic reviews of outcomes related to relevant outcomes for children and young people
Consensus building and ranking survey with Foundations staff
External consultations, including with professional stakeholders and young people
Development of a thematically organised Outcomes Framework
COSMIN appraisal of outcome measures
Development of a searchable Measures Database with useful information for evaluators
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