Outcome Star

Outcomes Stars are evidence-based tools designed to support positive change and greater wellbeing, with scales presented in a star shape and measured on a clearly defined ‘Journey of Change’. The Outcomes Star is completed as part of conversations between individuals and support practitioners such as key workers.

What is the Outcomes Star?

The Outcomes Star is:

• A family of evidence-based tools for measuring and supporting change when working with people.
• A unique and innovative way for frontline services to demonstrate their impact whilst improving their keywork.
• Tailored to specific sectors, with over 25 versions developed in collaboration with service users, service providers and commissioners.
• Widely used in the UK by national and local charities, Local Authorities, the NHS, Police, schools, housing associations, care and support services, and growing internationally across Europe, Asia, Australasia and the USA.
• Available under licence and with training for all members of staff using the Star.

For a general introduction to the Outcomes Star, please download our Briefing: What is the Outcomes Star? from the Resources section on the right of this page.

The Star is underpinned by three values

Empowerment, Collaboration, and Integration – which sets it apart from traditional approaches.

The values that inform the Outcomes Stars are like those of person-centred, strengths-based and co-production approaches:

• The Star places importance on the Young Persons perspective and priorities, as in a person-centred approach.
• The holistic assessment offered by the Star focuses on aspects of life that are going well in addition to areas of difficulty, as in a strengths-based approach.
• As in co-production, the service user is seen as an active agent in their own life and a valuable source of expertise and knowledge rather than a passive sufferer of an affliction that the professional, with their expertise and knowledge, will cure.

As a result, implementing the Outcomes Star can provide an effective way of putting these approaches and values into practice in independent living.