Quality Matters | Supporting Improvements in Social Services

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Latest from the blog

Chicken & Egg : Resources, Outcomes & Measuring Impact

November 20, 2014

By Caroline Gardner

Breakfast is the Most Important Meal

August 14, 2014

By Aoife Dermody

Why You Should Care about eHealth

August 1, 2014

By Philip Isard

Impact Measurement: A problem with targets

April 18, 2014

By Martin Quigley

Our clients

Featured Work

Service Audit and Needs Analysis of Children’s Services in Meath

2013

Meath Children's Services Committee

Evaluation, Research

Heads Up: Preventing and Responding to Overdose in McGarry House

May 2014

Novas Initiatives

Research

The People Make the Place

May 2014

Dolphin Alliance

Research

Choose to Change: Evaluation of the ARC Alcohol Reduction Programme

May 2014

Addiction Response Crumlin / Dublin 12 Local Drugs Task Force

Evaluation

Don’t just take our word for it

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Having worked with Quality Matters over a 9 month period, we found them to be a professional, competent and diligent research team. They were clearly able to understand the wide spectrum of social issues facing our community and also brought a flexible and relaxed approach that is important when working in a community setting. They were extremely generous with their time and were always at the end of the phone when we needed clarifications and updates on progress. We would have no hesitation in recommending them for contracts in a similar capacity.

Manus Bree / Regeneration Coordinator / Dolphin Alliance
It's great to see this kind of analysis that I and the community can learn from, this is the first time we have done this kind of research on the distribution of resources.

Gordon Jeyes / CEO / Child and Family Agency
Quality Matters, led by Caroline Gardner, conducted an SROI evaluation for the Mojo programme in South Dublin County. The experience of working with Caroline and her team was extremely positive as their professionalism was mixed with a warm and friendly approach. The quality of the evaluation was excellent; the data gathered was valuable, accessible and practical. I look forward to working with Quality Matters again in the future and would highly recommend them to other organisations.

Derek McDonnell / Development Specialist / Mojo Project
Thanks for your wonderful facilitation at the workshop and for catching the points so eloquently in the report.

Louise Murray / Chair / Dublin City Volunteer Centre
Working with Quality Matters in addressing a serious health issue like overdose within the homeless sector was an eye-opening experience. Their commitment and dedication as well as their professionalism and sensitivity around the subject matter and those who experienced overdose was commendable and made the research a very real and live piece of data. Novas hope to use this important work to push the issue of overdose onto the national agenda and ultimately reduce the numbers of homeless persons overdosing by providing real and accessible safety mechanisms. Novas hope to continue their relationship with Quality Matters in addressing issues that affect those most marginalised in our communities…

Anne Cronin / Head of Homeless Services / Novas Initiatives
Following a piloted two year strategic harm reduction alcohol programme in Dublin 12, Quality Matters were engaged to evaluate the programme; to provide an overview of the programme, identify how the programme fits with best practice in alcohol treatment, highlight outcomes in the context of ARC’s overall aims and Service Level Agreements, provide recommendations to improve the programme and examine sustainability of the programme into the future.

Quality Matters located our research in a strategic context and considered the long-term needs of our service users and community. They effectively engaged our service users, staff team and partners in a thorough evaluation process. Quality Matters were efficient, cost effective and delivered a quality report on time. The evaluation report will support ARC to improve our services and the recommendations are also useful to other services and the addiction sector generally.

Susan Collins / Managing Director / Addiction Response Crumlin
We engaged Quality Matters to undertake a review of the Quality Standard Framework developed for Volunteer Centres. It was a complicated project in the sense of there being a multitude of stakeholders with sometimes varying requirements, but Caroline and the team's prodigious knowledge and excellent communication skills made sure the work stayed focused, and was enjoyable. The end result went far beyond the call of duty and we look forward to working with QM again in the near future.

Yvonne McKenna / CEO / Volunteering Ireland
The Irish Council for Civil Liberties commissioned Quality Matters twice in 2013. We were impressed with Quality Matters’ ability to design and develop two very different, yet highly specialised tools, i.e. a Training Programme, and a Monitoring Tool, both of which dealt with the complicated content of European Union Directives. Through our experience of working together, Quality Matters adhere to deadlines, are clear communicators, reliable and flexible.

Grace Mulvey / Coordinator / JUSTICIA Network, Irish Council for Civil Liberties
Very efficient, grasped what we were about and delivered.

Bernard Joyce / Development Worker / Cavan Traveller Movement

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Our clients

Featured Work

Meath Children's Services Committee

Novas Initiatives

Dolphin Alliance

Addiction Response Crumlin / Dublin 12 Local Drugs Task Force

Don’t just take our word for it

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