The Cooperative Movement

Evaluation is not a self-contained phase of social work practice - one more dimension of the process - but a dimension of every phase. In this fully revised and updated second edition of his groundbreaking text Evaluation in Practice, Ian F Shaw demonstrates how evaluation and inquiry are just as much practice tasks as planning, intervention and review are practice tasks. By demonstrating that good evaluating in practice helps sustain a commitment to evidence, Shaw shows that for this to be achieved, evaluating in practice must permeate every aspect of social work.