Examples of Recorded Outcomes

(taken from Credit Where It’s Due, NYA, July 05)

1. A young person who has been bullied at school and stopped attending regularly has been working with your project to identify the problems associated with attending school and agreed an action plan with you. A recorded outcome could be counted at the point at which the young person achieves one of the targets negotiated within their action plan.

You would need to have evidence to support this achievement and identify the learning gains for the individual young person. For example the evidence might be a copy of the action plan in a file for that young person along with a witness statement which describes how the target has been reached and what that has meant for the young person.

2. You are based in a ‘one night a week’ youth club that serves several communities in a rural area. During the evening you are talking with a young person who started attending the youth club in the last 3-4 weeks; they tell you that they are concerned about making choices at school that will have an effect on their future. As yet, they have no clear ideas about what they want to do in later life and are under pressure from parents to get a job and earn some money.

You put them in touch with their local Connexions service and agree to discuss the options in more detail the following week.

A recorded outcome could be counted at the point at which you know that the young person has met with a Personal Adviser and explored his/her options for the future.

3. You are running a structured life skills programme for 4 hours a day over 12 weeks. This involves the group of 10 young people in a range of activities designed to enable their re-engagement with education, training or employment. As part of the programme young people are able to complete unit/s of a local or national award.

Not all members of the group will choose to or be able to gain an accredited outcome when they gain their award. However, all participants receive a certificate outlining their attendance and achievements and a recorded outcome could be counted at the point where the certificate is presented.