Barnardo’s B-Wild Practitioner Training Programme Final Evaluation Report

Abstract

Introduction: Barnardo’s is a UK-wide charity that seeks to achieve better outcomes for children. In this report, we provide a summary account of a research-informed evaluation of the training aspects of the B-Wild programme which forms part of a wider array of services in this area for the charity. Our focus here is to evaluate when and how the facilitators of the B-Wild programme benefited from this training and how it impacted on their practice. There is inevitably the opportunity here too to see how the programme was experienced in practice via the accounts of the B-Wild staff. However, we are not evaluating the effectiveness of B-Wild for its recipients. We did not gather evidence from young people, or families. Similarly, we did not observe B-Wild provision in situ. The report outlines our aims and methodology. We provide a short findings summary at the outset. Thereafter, in ‘Analysis Level 1’ we provide four key themes that emerged from our analysis providing more in-depth evidence. In Analysis Level 2, we provide more of an overarching view of the key features of the B-Wild programme. We provide a short conclusion with reflections based on the findings and some selected literature.