Reflective practice and evaluation: most significant change

Developing Evidence Enriched Practice (DEEP) is a co-production approach to gathering, exploring, and using diverse types of evidence in learning and development using story and dialogue-based methods.

The importance of meaningfully gathering and exploring stories of change

Outcomes-focused evaluation has long been promoted, particularly in services and programmes focused on change and improvement. Gathering evidence of people’s outcomes is included in the Social Services Performance and Improvement Framework. However, measuring and gathering change outcomes in ways that are meaningful can be challenging. There is growing recognition that people’s stories can be a powerful way to explore and learn from people’s change outcomes. Most Significant Change (Davies and Dart, 2005) is an approach to gathering and exploring change outcomes through stories that was developed in the context of public health and community development.

This session

This half-day session will introduce the essential of the Most Significant Change approach. It will outline the principles and practice of gathering Most Significant Change stories and detail how to explore and learn from these stories in story selection panels.

This event is being run by Social Care Wales if you have any questions, please contact the event team.