Tackling child poverty - place-based, system change initiatives: learnings

Footnotes

1. Tackling child poverty pathfinders: evaluability assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

2. See the second Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, Best Start, Bright Futures.

3. Tackling child poverty pathfinders: evaluability assessment - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

4. We have also published a logic model which outlines our understanding of the range of approaches and steps needed in order to achieve positive change in local child poverty support systems.

5. Therefore, this work does not seek to cover all system change initiatives being undertaken by the Scottish Government. However, learnings from this synthesis analysis may be applicable to other policy contexts.

6. Due to the early stages of development, implementation and evaluation of the initiatives in scope, we do not have enough evidence, as of yet, to fully address all the research questions.

7. See Appendix A for the guide which was used for these discussions.

8. A key output drawn on in this analysis is the evaluation report for the Access to Childcare Fund (ACF) which was established to test and run new models of school age childcare as part of community tests of change.

9. For example evidence from the UK Government’s Supporting Families programme.

10. Many of the initiatives were dependent on Scottish Government grant funding which was time limited. This varied from a maximum of 18 months for CPAF projects to four years for WFWF.

11. Work is ongoing between Scottish Government and local stakeholders to ensure the outcomes, and systems, which are developed, and embedded, during the funded period are sustainable in the longer term.

12. For example, to show that the systems change initiative was the cause of the outcomes observed.

13. A report on the complexities of system change evaluation can be found here: Navigating-system-change-evaluation.pdf (socialfinance.org.uk)