This network was launched in 2008 as we travelled the country to meet practitioners, funders, commissioners and managers and to talk about the future of Monitoring & Evaluation.

Since then we've been hard at work developing plans for a new online platform that will support projects to more effectively capture the information they need to demonstrate impact whilst lowering the burden of data collection. Building on our experience over a number of years of developing SPRS - a project reporting system, we're starting from the ground up to build 'Substance Views' - a flexible framework and platform that not only helps projects record and report on what they have been doing - but which also helps in the move towards outcome based commissioning.

We welcome your continued involvement in this network, both to help us:

• Test the ideas and technologies which the development of Substance Views will be based upon;
• Explore the idea of outcomes based commissioning;
• Learn from front-line experiences of recording and reporting on services; and commissioning new services;

Our goal is that, through this network, we can all gain a deeper understanding of the modern landscape of commissioning, providing, and measuring the impact of public services.