Full membership is open to statutory, private sector and voluntary and community sector organisations at an annual cost of £3,000 (plus VAT).
CORC membership can be for either a single organisation or a geographical partnership. International membership options are available - please contact us at CORC@annafreud.org for details.
Full members benefit from:
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phone and email support from the CORC central team, including a named Regional Improvement Officer for your organisation, to address queries on routine outcome monitoring, evaluation, and evidence-led service improvement
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access to the CORC team to address the specific needs of your organisation - this can be discussed to ensure it is most relevant and beneficial to your organisation, but could include: advice about choosing, working with and understanding data from measures, or advice on analysing outcome data
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reporting or data analysis support tailored to the needs of your service, which could include considering change on measures between time points and how meaningful these changes are, comparing service data with comparator data held by CORC, breakdowns by demographic characteristics or other factors such as gender, or teams
CORC data analysis reports will provide clear insights that can be readily absorbed and used in various ways to drive improvement
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on-site or virtual tailored support, drawing on CORC’s skills and expertise in research, informatics and practice teams in a wide range of areas associated with outcome-focused practice and using evidence. This could include expert advice, guidance and coaching to support member organisations with analysing their own data in-house, including opportunities for organisations to benchmark their data against the CORC dataset; facilitated self-assessment, staff survey and improvement planning using the CORC Best Practice Framework; local training days delivered remotely or on-site as appropriate; support on choosing and using outcome and feedback measures to strengthen direct practice and inform service development; improving data collection, collation, and analysis; support on the interpretation, presentation, or application of your data; facilitated data discussions with funders, commissioners or partners around working with messy, flawed, or partial data in a meaningful way; support and guidance on information governance; developing outcome frameworks; review of processes and systems
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free access to all CORC trainings - multiple places per organisation*
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free places at regional and national shared learning events, including the annual CORC Forum*
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access to online resources through the CORC website and members area, including e-learning modules and online training videos
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access to the CORC Best Practice Framework and self-assessment tool
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access to CORC's four Badges of Recognition
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access to CORC Comparators for commonly used outcome measures, allowing you to compare your own organisation’s data with the change reported by children and young people in the CORC dataset for each measure
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participation in a learning collaboration, bringing you information about the latest academic advances, policy thinking and on the ground developments via CORC’s website, events and CORC network newsletter, and providing opportunities to engage with peers to share and advance practice
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full members can also access other services at a reduced rate.
*If required to keep numbers manageable, we may restrict the number of places per membership for specific events.
CORC membership looks different for each organisation as the benefits are tailored to meet its own unique needs and priorities. Whether your organisation wants to measure and demonstrate impact, use outcomes data more effectively with service users, analyse and report on outcomes data, build staff confidence and capability with outcome measures and data, or to strengthen best practice implementation CORC membership can support your goals.
Some examples and case studies of how CORC has worked with organisations, and the outcomes that were achieved, are available here.
Interested in joining?
If you'd like to arrange a free 20-30 minute conversation with one of our friendly CORC Regional Improvement Officers to discuss your organisation’s needs and how we can help, please get in touch with us at corc@annafreud.org. No obligations, just an exploratory and informative opportunity to discuss.
Associate membership and Voluntary Community Sector membership options are also available.
CORC membership typically runs for one year with two membership windows available - 1 April to 31 March, and 1 September to 31 August. In order to accommodate the specific priorities or budgeting arrangements of organisations, extended or bespoke membership periods are available on request.
If membership is not quite right, or now is not the right time to join, but you would like to keep in touch, you may like to join our free CORC Network to become part of our learning community and receive updates on the latest research findings, best practice, tools, shared learning and events emerging from CORC's members, projects and collaborations.
CORC also provides tailored support to organisations through its consultancy offer. Our team will work with you to deliver end-to-end bespoke support that responds to the challenges you face. This may include developing logic models to unpick the processes driving your work, or advising on suitable evaluation approaches. To find out more, please click on the orange ‘Research and Consultancy Service’ button below.
I see our membership with CORC as a way to drive our service improvements and provide a better and more effective service for our young people and their families going forward.
Seán O’Brien (Outcomes Information Officer, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust)
CORC members can request a copy of the Framework and bespoke implementation support free of charge or at a reduced rate depending on their level of membership.
We partner with you for service improvement or transformation projects, conduct evaluations, and collaborate to conduct research.
Take a look at some of these projects
A selection of case studies providing examples of work undertaken with organisations on specific service improvement or transformation projects, and the outcomes achieved.
Take a look here