Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) Programme - year 2: process and impact evaluation - full report

Footnotes

1 Children’s Services Planning Partnerships lead strategic planning in local areas with a multi-agency strategic governance group of senior leaders from the local authority and health board working with other organisations responsible for planning the delivery of services and support to improve outcomes for children, young people and families living in that area. Partnerships include community-based, adult and children’s services (but are not limited to) Integration Joint Boards, Police, Social Work, the Third Sector, Housing, Health, and Education.

2 Element 2 also supports the wider evaluation and research work for WFWF.

3 The long-term outcomes are listed in Annex 3 of the full report, but, as evidence of these is expected to take time to emerge, they are not assessed with respect to Element 1, 2, and 3 during this Year 2 evaluation.

4 All CSPPs were encouraged to put forward young people aged 12+ to take part in the panel. The final group consisted of young people from Fife and Highland.

5 There are 30 CSPPs across Scotland, but 32 local areas, as Tayside is divided into three CSPPs. While Tayside submits a single CSP, each one of the individual areas submit individual templates detailing how they are using their allocations under the Element 1 of WFWF.

6 Where this was the case, the evaluation team considered and discussed together whether possible external explanations (e.g. other unrelated factors) could instead be (partly) responsible for the extent of achievement of the outcome. Further analysis of the qualitative data and WFWF annual report data was undertaken as needed to explore this further to come to a conclusion on the contribution of the WFWF to achievement.

7 Note there were no WFWF outcomes where evidence was positive about full achievement, but was weak. All the outcomes scored with this descriptor were assessed to have strong and consistent evidence to conclude that there has been some achievement of the outcome.

8 Note there were no outcomes that were assessed as having been not achieved.

9 East Ayrshire was one of three the areas identified through a national selection process, as part of the WFWF programme. However, the partnership members determined it was not possible to maintain the pace or to commit the capacity needed to progress this complex programme of joint support. A solution that would enable the collaboration to continue was ultimately not thought to be viable and the mutual decision was reached to end the collaboration in June 2024.

10 More information can be found at: peep learning together programme training | www.peeple.org.uk

11 More information can be found at: Residential rehabilitation (alcohol and drugs) services | Scotland Excel (scotland-excel.org.uk)

12 A session aimed at building capacity in leadership practices essential for the delivery of sustainable, transformational change, and supporting leaders in their specific roles and functions throughout change process. The session took place in December 2023 with the aim of providing a space for participative learning around the theories and practices of collective leadership in WFWF work.

13 Online platform to share a range of useful resources and materials, as well as space to collaborate and engage with other CSPPs around family support.

14 A learning model commonly used in hands-on professions to teach practical skills. A person first observes a professional perform a task, after which they perform it themselves under supervision, and then they teach the task to someone else.