The UK evidence base on what works to reduce the impact of parental conflict on children is at a relatively early stage. As a new policy field, it is critical that evaluation is part of any plans to develop or commission relationship support. Without suitable impact evaluations we won’t really know if or why interventions and services have worked. Read about how you can start to measure and evaluate the impact of your provision, while also learning from previous evaluations.
Reducing parental conflict: A practical evaluation guide for local areas
This guide is a practical tool to support your local area to evaluate activities aimed at reducing the impact of conflict between parents on children.
Measuring parental conflict and its impact on child outcomes
Guidance on selecting and using valid, reliable and practical measures to evaluate interventions seeking to reduce parental conflict and improve outcomes for children.
Reducing parental conflict outcomes framework guide
This guide provides step-by-step guidance on applying EIF’s Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) Outcomes Framework, as well as local area examples and potential workshop content, which can be adapted as required to reflect local context and priorities.
How to evaluate training on reducing parental conflict: A practical guide for local areas
This practical step-by-step guide for local areas is designed to help make the process of conducting an evaluation of reducing parental conflict training more manageable and achievable.
Tameside: Developing a shared outcomes framework for the local reducing parental conflict programme
This is Tameside’s story of using EIF’s RPC outcomes framework tool to develop a shared Tameside outcomes framework for their reducing parental conflict programme. It is told by Rachel Berrisford, team manager for parenting, RPC, STARS and young carers and Tameside’s single point of contact (SPOC) for reducing parental conflict; Becky Saunders, local development advisor at EIF; and Virginia Ghiara
10 steps for evaluation success
From science to scalability: follow our 10-step guide to help you progress along the evaluation journey, from a good idea into an intervention that works.
Other resources
RPC Measures Selector (EIF)
Using validated tools to measure parental conflict and its impact on children
Evaluating early intervention programmes: Six common pitfalls, and how to avoid them (EIF)
A place for everything and everything in its place: using the Outcomes Stars in combination with validated measures of impact (EIF)
Local Family Offer Pilot: Evaluation of Phase 1 (DWP)
Perinatal Pilots for delivery of relationship advice: An evaluation (DWP)
Early intervention into action: Innovation and evaluation (EIF)
Understanding the lives of separating and separated parents in the UK: what evidence do we need? (Nuffield Foundation)
Knowing what you do works: Measuring your own effectiveness with families, parents and children (Tavistock Relationships)
Knowing what you do works Measuring your own effectiveness with families, parents and children: a short guide (Family and Parenting Institute)
Evaluating early help: A guide to evaluation of complex local early help systems
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