Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) - year 1 process evaluation: final report

Footnotes

1. The annexes are published separately as part of the supporting documents for this report.

2. Children's services planning: guidance - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. Lone-parent families, households where someone is disabled, families with three or more children, minority ethnic families, families with a child under one year old, families where the mother is under 25 years old.

4. Improving outcomes for children, young people and families: review of Children’s Services Plans and strategic engagement activity - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

5. 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, SCRA, Police, Social Work, the Third Sector, Housing, Health, and Education.

6. This is support that addresses the needs of children and adults in a family both before they need it (so to prevent any issues from developing) and at the time of need rather than at crisis point (this is known as early intervention).

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

8. Glasgow City (£4.7m); East Ayrshire (£0.832m); North Ayrshire (£0.959m); Aberdeen City (£1.025m); Fife (£2.289m); South Lanarkshire (£1.827m).

9. The integrated joint board is a formal public body in South Lanarkshire that develops and leads the local strategy for health and social care.

10. The WFWF Learning into Action Network is co-designed and co-delivered with stakeholders to enable collaboration, facilitate peer support, share learning and approaches from across the country, and support solution-focused discussions around the barriers to whole system change. CSPPs have utilised this network to develop their initial plans and delivery of WFWF activities.

11. Scottish legislation requires CSPPs to develop and publish their Children’s Services Plan every three years. The current cycle runs from 2020-2023 and the next planning cycle runs from April 2023-2026.

12. Lone-parent families, households where someone is disabled, families with three or more children, minority ethnic families, families with a child under one year old, families where the mother is under 25 years old.

13. Joint Strategic Needs Assessment is a process that is used to identify the current and future health and social care needs of a population. It aims to highlight needs around topics of joint strategic importance, providing recommendations for action to improve health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. It is a statutory duty for local authorities, CSPPs and commissioning groups under the Health and Social Care Act 2012.

14. CSPPs are required to set out how the partnership will work together collaboratively to improve outcomes for children and young people in their area. This plan also outlines the local authority and health board’s vision for how public services used by children and families will develop in the local area.

15. 14 CSPPs did not specify early outcomes included in the logic model in their initial plans.

16. Annual reports were not received by nine CSPPs; nine CSPPs did not report progress towards any early outcomes in their annual reports.