Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work?
Date
2005
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Publisher
Bristol, The Policy Press
Type
Book chapter
Peer reviewed
Abstract
Description
This paper explores how the concept of social capital can be adapted and used as a tool for participative evaluation of community based work. The paper draws on the authors’ experience of working with the Nottingham Social Action Research Project (SARP) as an example. It has influenced the delivery of community based project in several areas of Nottingham but also recently work in London and Leicester. It also influenced policy development with Leicester City Council and County Council which has developed their Local Area Agreement indicators for ‘Stronger and safer communities’ on the basis of this work.
Keywords
RAE 2008, UoA 40 Social Work and Social Policy & Administration
Citation
Boeck, T.G. and Fleming, J. (2005) Can social capital be a framework for participative evaluation of community health work? In: Taylor, D. and Balloch, S. eds. The politics of evaluation: Participation and policy implementation. Bristol: Polity Press, pp. 223-237.