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Conducting evaluation during times of change: Lessons from policy and community responses to the pandemic in Scotland

Published: 26 August 2024
From: Director-General Communities
Directorate: Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
ISBN: 9781836016229

This report reviews existing evidence from evaluations of Scottish Government COVID-19 measures, in order to develop key principles for embedding evaluation more systematically into policymaking during times of rapid change or disruption.

Supporting documents

Footnotes

1. Coronavirus (COVID-19): Learning and Evaluation Oversight Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. Three of these evaluated different stages of Connecting Scotland; they were not treated as a single evaluations since target population and what was implemented varied between phases

3. COVID-19 Shielding Programme (Scotland) rapid evaluation

4. Universal Health Visiting Pathway evaluation (phase 1)

5. Extended Distress Brief Intervention Programme: evaluation

6. Evaluation of the Near Me video consulting service in Scotland

7. The Road to Recovery - Volunteer Scotland

8. Coronavirus (COVID-19) targeted community testing: national evaluation evidence and insights - final report

9. Barriers to adherence with COVID-19 restrictions

10. Connecting Residents in Scotland's Care Homes

11. COVID-19 vaccine programme evaluation

12. Coronavirus (COVID-19) support in low income households: evaluation

13. Coronavirus (COVID-19) business support measures: evaluation

14. Scottish Welfare Fund review: final report

15. Coronavirus (COVID-19) support study experiences of and compliance with self-isolation: research findings

16. Perinatal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scotland

17. Civil justice system - pandemic response: research findings

18. Connecting Scotland: phase 1 evaluation

19. Connecting Scotland: phase 2 evaluation

20. Telemedicine early medical abortion at home: evaluation

21. COVID-19 Mitigation Measures Among Children and Young People

22. Funding streams included the Third Sector Resilience Fund, Wellbeing Fund, Supporting Communities Fund and additional funding to the Scottish Welfare Fund. Helping communities affected by COVID-19 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

23. For instance, the review of the Small Grants Fund states that "As a result of limited data on the fund, it is beyond the scope of the review to draw conclusions about the extent to which the fund achieved its aims, or overall impact in terms of outcomes for communities"

24. Supporting Communities Fund evaluation

25. Review of the Small Grants Fund

26. Evaluation of the Wellbeing Fund Open Application Process

27. Locality Operational Groups Impact Report

28. Third Sector Interface COVID-19 Learning Project

29. Coronavirus (COVID-19) asymptomatic testing programme: evaluation - November 2020 to June 2021