Together for Childhood is a long-term approach bringing together families and local partners to make communities safer for children. We’re working collaboratively in Glasgow, Grimsby, Plymouth, and Stoke-on-Trent to develop and test effective place-based approaches to prevent child abuse.
To help understand what difference Together for Childhood is making, we used a ‘storytelling approach’ called Transformative Evaluation. Community members and local partners across all four sites were asked to describe the most important change they experienced as a result of their involvement with Together for Childhood. These stories were shared and discussed with key stakeholders, and one story was selected from each site to reflect the most significant change.
The report describes how Transformative Evaluation helped us identify and understand the changes happening across all four sites. It builds on previous round of findings from our previous Transformative Evaluation of the approach1 , to consider what the latest stories can tell us about how Together for Childhood is making a difference to local communities.
Author: Kandazi Sisya
Research team: Rosie Jardin, Claire Sloan, Claire White, Alice Dutton, Thea Shahrokh, Stephanie Talbut
References
Coster, D. and Moore (2022) Hearing stories of change: using a Transformative Evaluation method in the evaluation of Together for Childhood. London: NSPCC.
