Engaging with families living in low-income households through system change, place-based initiatives

Appendix B – Template for data collection

Engaging with families with low-income or living in poverty – collation of evidence for synthesis analysis

1. Name of initiative:

2. Name of person(s) and role completing this template:

3. Does the strategic aims of the initiative/overall policy consider engagement with families across service design and/or delivery?

4. Does the logic model/theory of change for the initiative consider engagement with families?

5. In what ways have families in low-income households been engaged in service design and/or delivery?

6. How has the initiative engaged with underreached families (e.g. priority families, children and young people, and/or those with other equality characteristics known to be at higher risk of poverty)?

7. In the context of your own policy, what have been the most effective methods of engagement for engaging families living on a low-income ?

8. What have been the least effective methods of engagement for engaging families living in low-income households and/or underreached families?

9. Within the initiative is it possible to identify key barriers that have hindered or prevented engagement with families and/or underreached families? If these barriers have been overcome, please share what measures were taken to achieve this.

10. Are there any groups that you intended to reach by your initiative, but were unable to do so? For example, there may be groups that may not be being reached, such as those with care experience, minority ethnic families, please provide details.

11. Is there any other planned future engagement with families living in low-income households across service design and/or delivery? This may include planned future work phases and/or work yet to happen.