ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the approaches to evaluation-recognising that both might be required by either local or central audiences, and ideally should be integrated into one evaluation design so each might draw. On the other hand, if you wanted to do a really thorough open inquiry evaluation, you could ask, 'What do you think' of all or many of the widest possible range of aspects. But if the tight restriction of pre-existing audit review evaluation could be released, and a lot of attention devoted to that single successful instance, enormous ground might be covered that might have relevant repercussions for other areas of the service and may even lead to new or reframed objectives. The fundamental drawback of open inquiry evaluation lies in its capacity to overlook matters that are not obvious to the inquirer. However, open inquiry evaluation is generally 'only' able to be discrepancy based or problem or improvement-focused.
