About Us > Core Values
We are committed to ensuring that the design, delivery and evaluation of services for children and young people are:
Children’s rights based
Representing a commitment in all that we do to understand, respect and honour the rights of children and young people. In practice this will include: focusing on the experiences and perspectives of the children and young people themselves; encouraging their active participation in all aspects of the design, delivery and evaluation of services; and ensuring that all services are fully compliant with recognized children’s rights standards.
Outcomes focused
Representing a commitment to the development of services that can lead to demonstrable improvements in the lives of children and young people and their parents and communities. In practice this will include: being explicit about what it is that services aim to achieve; facilitating organizations to set their own clearly defined outcomes in consultation with children and young people and their parents and communities that are measurable or in some other way verifiable; approaching the development of services clearly and logically with the aim of devising the most effective ways of achieving the outcomes specified; and being committed to evaluating the effectiveness of the services developed specifically in terms of whether they have achieved the outcomes specified for them.
Evidence informed
Representing a commitment to ensuring that the design and delivery of services for children and young people are informed by the best available evidence. In practice this will include: promoting indepth qualitative research that can increase our understanding of the experiences, perspectives and needs of children and young people and their families and communities; promoting larger-scale survey research and epidemiological studies to help understand the extent to which these experiences and needs vary across the population; and undertaking evaluations of services using randomized controlled trials and quasi-experimental designs alongside qualitative case studies to assess whether particular services have actually been effective in improving outcomes for children and young people and, if so, why.