Evolve

Evolve's Project HE:RO programme, led by its team of Health Mentors, is having a positive impact on thousands of children's lives in England and Wales, and has improved their wellbeing by 11.31% during the last autumn term alone. How do we know this? Evolve's West Midlands Regional Manager, Amie Richards, who also leads on impact reporting for the... company, has co-developed a new system to collect and analyse data, and report to schools. Amie explains how this works: "When we visit one of our schools, we can all see the great work that we are doing in schools and the massive impact we are having on children's lives. "However, we need to be able to evidence the impact of our services to governors, parents and Ofsted.?That is why this year we are using a new system for our impact reports, making the data quantitative and more informative. "Students fill in our specifically-designed survey four times a year, focusing on their personal development, physical activity and emotional wellbeing. These areas are then analysed to give the pupils an overall health and wellbeing score.?There are many benefits to this system: the school can see the areas where the Health Mentor is having the greatest impact; timetables can be adjusted based on the children's scores; and the Health Mentors can tailor mentoring sessions to focus on specific areas. "As of our T1 data collection in January, the Evolve Health Mentors nationwide are impacting on a significant number of?children and have improved their overall health and wellbeing by 11.31% in the autumn term. The biggest improvements are in the children's physical activity levels, which increased by 7.23%, closely followed by the children's emotional wellbeing, which improved by 5.28%."Read More