Summer holiday food, activities and childcare programme: evaluation report - summer 2022

Appendix A: Logic Model

Inputs

Funding

Staff

Scottish Government administered guidance on eligibility and activity provision

Facilities

Transport

Food supply

Local knowledge

Local Partnerships

Activities

Programme staffing:

• Recruitment
• Training
• Cross-sector partnership working

Programme design:

• Identifying additional funding sources
• Designing childcare/activity sessions
• Identifying new options for childcare/activity sessions
• Activities co-created with CYP and families
• Identifying and mitigating access barriers
• Non-stigmatising approaches to participation
• Menu design

Programme promotion and communication:

• Identifying families in target groups
• Targeted communication
• General communication

Outputs

Programme staffing:

• Trained staff
• New/improved cross-sector partnerships

Programme provision:

• Range of childcare sessions
• Range of activity sessions
• New/innovative holiday activities
• Accessible transport
• Appropriate food provision
• Support for low-income families
• Engaged communities

Participation/Reach:

• Children, young people and families in every LA
• Place based approach targeting areas of multiple deprivation
• 85% funding targeted at:
  • Families of children/young people aged 5-14
  • Family groups identified in the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
• 15% of funding for provision for those who need it most (including, but not limited to):
  • Children from other low-income families
  • Care experienced children and young people
  • Young carers
  • Children in need of protection
  • Children supported by a child's plan
  • Children with ASN
  • Children who have undergone significant transitions, for example, starting in ELC, primary or secondary school

Short term outcomes/impacts

Outcomes for families:

Increased equity of access to holiday childcare and activities for children from low-income families

Reduced household costs during school holidays

More opportunities for parents/carers to rest, train, work, or spend more time with other children in household

Priority outcomes for children / young people:

Opportunities to try new activities

Choice of a range of activities

Consistent access to nutritious food during school holidays

Secondary outcomes for children / young people:

Increased participation in activities outside/out of their usual environment

Increased physical activity

Access to peer learning/further support

Enjoyment and improved wellbeing

Opportunities to socialise with peers

Improved relationships with food

For service providers:

Improved understanding of needs of low-income families

Robust cross-sector working

Medium to long term outcomes/impacts

Creation of flexible, affordable childcare solutions which meet needs of families 

Creation of new types of holiday childcare provision

Creation of sustainable, scalable childcare solutions

Parents/carers enabled to pursue new opportunities for training and employment

Contribute to improved standard of living

Contribute to reductions in health inequalities

Sustainable cross-sector working relationships