Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres Pilot: Final Report
This report presents final findings from the evaluation of the ‘Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres’ Pilot. A baseline and interim evaluation report have already been published. This final report builds on all the findings from these previous evaluation reports and research components, as well as Management Information.
This report presents final findings from the evaluation of the ‘Work-Focused Services in Children’s Centres’ Pilot. The main components of the evaluation were:
- Two waves of case study interviews with pilot staff and some children’s centre users (autumn/winter 2009 and 2010).
- Two waves of in-depth qualitative interviews with children’s centre users, both those who had and had not used the pilot (summer 2009 and 2010).
- Two waves of a survey of children’s centre users conducted in all the pilot children’s centres (a ‘baseline’ survey in January 2009 and a wave two survey in 2011).
- A comparison study that involved nine children’s centres in three non-pilot local authorities so that any trends in take-up or attitudes could be linked to the pilot. The comparison study involved both case study research (autumn/winter 2010) and a survey of children’s centre users (January 2010).
A baseline and interim evaluation report had already been published. This final report builds on all the findings from these previous evaluation reports and research components, as well as Management Information.