Buddies Clubs & Services					       

Monitoring & Evaluation 

INTERNAL SYSTEMS

Buddies Clubs & Services makes ongoing assessment of present and future service in several ways: -

Monthly staff meetings
Staff training
Regular staff supervisions by senior/coordinator 
3 monthly appraisal/review of new employees
Annual staff appraisals by Service Manager
Written reports to Board from Chief Executive and Service Manager
Annual review of all Buddies Clubs & Services Policies.
Monitoring & Evaluation forms for parents/carers/children/young people
Feedback to parents/carers children/young people on suggestions/recommendations received through the monitoring and evaluation process. 

Buddies Clubs & Services is a small organisation with employees, being full time, part time or sessional. Our service operating from one location gives abundant opportunities for personal contact with young people /adults and their parents/carers. These informal discussions compliment the formal approaches documented above in gathering information for monitoring and evaluation purposes. 

A number of parents/carers sit on the Board of Buddies Clubs & Services so have firsthand knowledge of how our services are created and received.

EXTERNAL SYSTEMS

Buddies Clubs & Services has an annual inspection by the Care Inspectorate.

External Funders require evidence of ongoing monitoring and evaluation as part of the grant allocation process.

Staff training includes

First Aid course:  All staff undertake this course with refresher courses when required. 

Moving and handling

Child Protection

Food hygiene and Cross Infection:  All staff preparing snacks must undertake these courses at the beginning of employment with refresher courses as required. 

Health & Safety: All staff undertake an introduction to health & safety course at the beginning of employment with refresher courses as required.

SVQ Level II Play work/Early Years:  all staff required to complete this as the minimum qualification required to work with children.  

SVQ Level III Social Services Children and Young People 

SVQ 4 –Social service Children and young people

PDA – In childhood practice 

Specialist Courses as requested by staff (i.e. Autism Awareness, Introduction to Makaton.)