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

Annex 4: Glossary of terms

Children, Young People and Families (CYPFs): Children, Young People and Families who are accessing WFWF support from CSPPs.

Children's Service Plan (CSP): 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.

Children's Services Planning cycle : 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.

Children's Services Planning Partnership (CSPP): Children's Services Planning Partnerships were established through the Children and Young People (Scotland) Act in 2014 and are a collection of local authorities, health boards, services and partners that deliver Scotland's ambitions for children, young people and families.

Coronavirus (COVID-19): The global outbreak of a respiratory illness caused by the new coronavirus SARS-CoV-2.

COSLA: A councillor-led, cross-party organisation which champions the work of local councils across Scotland.

Crisis intervention: A key aim of the Whole Family Wellbeing Funding is to move from intervening when a crisis happens within families towards prevention, building resilience and providing the right level of support before problems materialise.

Element 1: The first element of the Scottish Government's Whole Family Wellbeing Funding provides direct support to all Children's Service Planning Partnerships (CSPPs) to support the scale up and delivery of holistic whole family support in local areas. This funding can also be used to build local capacity for achieving transformational change needed in how families are supported, for example, by recruiting a small team to support the CSPP plan for this funding or buying in additional transformational expertise to support leadership discussions.

Element 2: The second element of the Scottish Government's Whole Family Wellbeing Funding is focussed on a package of national support. This includes collaborative partnerships between a Scottish Government- led transformation team and three CSPPs (East Ayrshire, Glasgow City and East Lothian) to build local transformation capability and capacity and drive whole system change in family support at the local and national level. Element 2 is being evaluated separately by Rocket Science and Blake Stevenson. This IFF evaluation covers Element 2 to the extent that it relates to Element 1.

Element 3: The third element of the Scottish Government's Whole Family Wellbeing Funding aims to enable a cross-portfolio approach to system change, supporting national level policy delivery. It drives and supports the outcomes sought from the WFWF.

Family Support Advisory Group (FSAG): The Family Support Advisory Group (FSAG), formerly the Family Support Delivery Group (FSDG), is made up of a range of partners from national and local government, the third sector and statutory services. The FSDG was established as a sub-group of the Coronavirus (COVID-19): Children and Families Collective Leadership Group to deliver the Holistic Family Support Vision and Blueprint for Change. The Scottish Government developed outcomes and the approach of the Whole Family Wellbeing Funding in collaboration with stakeholders including the FSAG.

Genogram: A genogram is a visual tool that shows a family tree and is used to give a pictorial representation of a family system.

Holistic family support: Holistic family support focusses on joining up provision for families across a range of services provided by different organisations (e.g., agencies, professionals, the third sector, trusted partners). This aims to avoid a multitude of services addressing specific, isolated and individual issues within families. The likelihood of success is not based on the specific individual support, but on a relationship of trust between families and workers.

Initial plans: Initial plans were the first documentation CSPPs provided setting out how they intended to spend their WFWF allocation for 2022-23. The initial plan template created by the Scottish Government asked for information on CSPPs' existing approach to holistic whole family support, planned activity for WFWF, anticipated outcomes for the first year, and intended monitoring activities. The initial plan template also contained detail on the allocation methodology for the WFWF, the aims of the funding (see policy background section in the main report), and the criteria for spending the funding.

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA): 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.

Key Performance Indicator (KPI): A key performance indicator (KPI) is a measurable value that indicates how effectively a CSPP is achieving its objectives. KPIs are used to evaluate and monitor the performance of a CSPP against specific goals and targets.

Learning into Action network: 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 funding plans and delivery of WFWF activities.

Maturity model: An illustrative model that was developed by IFF Research early in the WFWF Year 1 process evaluation to help illustrate findings from the analysis of the initial plans. This model was designed to illustrate broadly how far into their journey CSPPs were (categorised by 'early', 'moderate' and 'advanced') and what sorts of activities they planned to use WFWF for.

Process evaluation: An evaluation that explores how an initiative (in this case the WFWF) was designed and delivered. It typically explores questions such as: was the initiative delivered as intended; what worked well/less well, for whom and why; what could be improved; what we can learn for future initiatives.

Scottish Government Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) leads: The Scottish Government put in place WFWF leads to provide CSPPs with a connection into the programme throughout the funding period. Each CSPP is allocated a lead who is their direct point of contact for queries and key information about the programme.

Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD): SIMD measures current income, employment, health, education, skills and training, housing, geographic access and crime. This is a statistical tool used by local authorities, the Scottish Government, the NHS and other government bodies to support policy and decision making particularly by targeting government action in the measures and areas that are in need.

Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan: This plan sets out policies and proposals to progress towards targets related to the reduction of child poverty in the longer term. It outlines the six priority groups that the Whole Family Wellbeing Funding intends to support which are judged by the CSPP to be most in need. These are: lone-parent families, housing 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.

The Promise: The Promise outlines key outcomes that aim to ensure that Scotland's children and young people grow up loved, safe and respected so that they can realise their full potential. This was developed following the Independent Care Review where, over three years, the Care Review listened to care experienced children, young people, and families to put together evidence around how Scotland could improve.

Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF): The Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF) is a Scottish Government investment of at least £500m over the life of this Parliament (2022-2026) to support whole system transformational change with the aim of reducing the need for crisis intervention in families, and to shift investment towards prevention and early intervention.