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Evaluating community care in Scotland: critical reflections on a study of policy implementation
- Author:
- FULLER R.
- Journal article citation:
- Scandinavian Journal of Social Welfare, 7(2), April 1998, pp.167-173.
- Publisher:
- Munksgaard/ Blackwell
This article describes the reality of evaluation the implementation of the reforms in community care in Scotland in 19993. In doing so it reports a trajectory familiar to evaluative researchers: the presentation of problems at the design stage, and their imperfect solutions; the emergence of delays in timetable; discoveries made during the research which affected the hopes invested in the original design, and the adoption of pragmatic solutions; the outcome of the research and its reception. Ends with some critical reflections upon the study and on evaluative research in general. It is suggested that evaluative research occupies a middle ground which results in the inevitability of compromise, queries whether there is truly an audience for uncompromised evaluation, and argues for the continuation of dialogue after completion as a guard against the ephemerality to which evaluation is often prone.