Cash-First Programme: final evaluation report

Appendix A: Acronyms and definitions

List of acronyms in alphabetical order

• ACVO - Aberdeen Council of Voluntary Organisations
• ALISS - A Local Information System for Scotland
• CAB/CABx - Citizens Advice Bureau/Citizens Advice Bureaux
• DWP - Department for Work and Pensions
• GCPH - Glasgow Centre for Population Health
• GDPR - General Data Protection Regulation
• HSCP - Health and Social Care Partnership
• IFAN - Independent Food Aid Network
• NRPF - No Recourse to Public Funds
• ONS - Office for National Statistics
• SIMD - Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation
• THAW - Tackling Household Affordable Warmth
• TSI - Third Sector Interface

Key definitions

• Cash-First: Ready access to emergency income when someone has no money for food. To prevent future hardship this should be delivered alongside welfare rights and income maximisation advice and support (see “Wraparound support” below)
• Delivery Partner: There were eight regional Cash-First Delivery Partners who worked with local core partner organisations to deliver the Programme in their dedicated area to service users.
• Food bank: Charitable or community organisations that distribute food parcels to people experiencing financial hardship. The two largest food bank networks in Scotland are Trussell and the Independent Food Aid Network. These networks represent many but not all food banks. Many community food and other organisations also integrate food provision alongside their wider activities.
• Food insecurity: The full range of experiences from worry regarding ability to afford food, through to compromising on quality and quantity of food and experiencing hunger. We recognise the social role of food and importance of being able to access food in ways which are common to a society.
• Holistic support: A joined-up approach to delivering services across sectors that is centred around wellbeing through meeting the whole needs of an individual or household. Can include services that meet financial, health, social, or cultural needs.
• In-work poverty: Households in relative poverty (individuals living in households whose equivalised income is below 60% of the UK median income in the same year) even though someone in the household is in paid work.
• Learning Partner: An independent learning support to help the Delivery Partners design and deliver the Programme and maximise learning from this.
• Local core partners: Local organisations supporting the delivery of the Programme, who are formal members of the local delivery partnership led by the regional Delivery Partner.
• Local stakeholder: Any organisation that supports the delivery of the Programme in each of the eight Delivery Partner areas. These may be, or may become, local referral partners.
• No Wrong Door: Refers to an approach to service deliver whereby, no matter where and how someone asks for help, or which professional they engage with, they will get the support they need because the system and services are joined up.
• People with lived experience: Individuals who have the knowledge and personal experience of specific circumstances, in this case, those who have experienced or are experiencing food insecurity
• Referral partners: Those local organisations who refer individuals to the Delivery Partner and their local core partners for Cash-First support.
• Trusted partner: Those local organisations and services with proven reliability, understanding of, and compliance with, public sector practices and requirements. Trusted partners work closely with local authorities, and other public sector agencies, to deliver services.
• Wraparound support: Income maximisation and welfare rights advice and support delivered as part of the Programme.