Mapping evaluation of UK childhood bereavement services: Findings from a recent study

Rolls, Liz ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9225-5497 and Penny, Alison (2011) Mapping evaluation of UK childhood bereavement services: Findings from a recent study. Bereavement Care, 30 (1). pp. 43-47. doi:10.1080/02682621.2011.555236

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Abstract

This article reports a study of evaluation strategies and tools currently used within UK child bereavement services. Data were sought from a representative sample of services across the UK on the evaluations’ users, the data requested, and organisations' existing evaluation strategies. The study found that child bereavement services were struggling with a considerable burden of demand for information from a range of users – chiefly funders and commissioners of services. However, a mapping exercise revealed that a considerable amount of the data required by evaluation users was the same, and that it was being obtained from evaluations that services overall were already undertaking. The most common forms of evaluation were post-intervention user satisfaction surveys of core interventions, using self-completion questionnaires. However, collection of basic data was limited and patchy, and evaluations of outcomes and organisational processes and reporting on the findings were less common. Based on these findings, the researchers propose the development of a set of common evaluation tools that could be used across all child bereavement services.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Childhood bereavement services evaluation; Outcomes; Outputs; Evaluation tools
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education, Health and Sciences
Depositing User:	Charlotte Crutchlow
Date Deposited:	02 Dec 2025 15:07
Last Modified:	02 Dec 2025 15:07
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/15572

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