How safe and ethical is our evaluation | Practical tools and tips
Ensuring all young people benefit from and are not harmed by our evaluation processes is central to best practice in evaluation. You may want to set up your own internal ethics panel to ensure your work is ethical or you may want to develop a link with a partner university to provide your ethical review. This section covers how to ensure you collect and store data securely and are compliant with regulations like GDPR, as well as general safety concerns as in all youth work.
Starting point
Start here if you are a youth practitioner new to evaluation and quality improvement design:
Advanced
Resources to build on your experience of evaluation frameworks and continuous quality improvement:

Case study
A group of organisations working together in a large study had concerns that one of the data collection tools they had been asked to use was not a good match for the project. It seemed to ask questions that were not related to the project aims but to the funders’ interest. They asked a small group of young people to test the tool and to give their views, after which they said they felt it was not useful to the project and asked too many personal questions. The team took the young people’s feedback to the funders, and the requirement to use the tool was removed.