Child Poverty Practice Accelerator Fund evaluation: final report

Annex D: Terminology explained

CPAF: Child Poverty Practice Accelerator Fund

APiC: A Place in Childhood (the evaluation support partner responsible for conducting this evaluation)

Partner: Any organisation (i.e., a local authority, health board, or third sector organisation) involved with a CPAF project.

Partnership: The combination of partner organisations working together on a CPAF project.

Project: Any of the CPAF projects.

Scottish Government team: Scottish Government staff working on/supporting the CPAF project and engaged in working with the evaluation support partner.

Frontline Worker: Individuals directly working with or supporting families within CPAF projects, typically employed by partner organisations.

Key Informant: Any participant interviewed/taking part in a frontline worker focus group as part of the evaluation process who provided detailed insights into the implementation and impacts of CPAF projects.

Family Participant: Any family member supported by a CPAF project that gave their thoughts on the implementation and impacts via focus group or interview.

Priority Family Groups: Specific groups of families identified as priorities for support by the Scottish Government, including families with disabilities, large families, young parents, single parents, and minority ethnic families.

Income Maximisation: Approaches and interventions aimed at increasing family incomes through enhanced access to financial entitlements and benefits.

Capacity Building: Developing skills, confidence, and infrastructure within organisations or communities to sustain effective anti-poverty practice.

Link Worker Model: An approach where families are provided a single, trusted point of contact to navigate and coordinate access to various support services.

Low Income Family Tracker (LIFT): A digital dashboard, created by the company Policy in Practice, used to integrate and analyse administrative data, enabling proactive identification and targeted support for families experiencing poverty.

Single Shared Assessment (SSA): A streamlined assessment process used by North Ayrshire Council to simplify application processes for multiple forms of support.

Acorn and Paycheck: Third-party datasets provided by the company CACI.

Social Needs Screening Tool (SNS): A six-question assessment framework co-created by Perth & Kinross Council, frontline staff, and families, aimed at facilitating holistic assessments and referrals to support services.

FORT Referral System: Digital referral platform used by the Citizens Advice Bureau to streamline referrals and enhance coordination among support services.

Co-production: The collaborative process of designing and delivering services alongside people with lived experience of the issues being addressed, and/or frontline organisations that support them.

Peer Research: Research conducted by individuals with lived experience of poverty.

Customer Relationship Management System (CRM): Local authority or partner database used to manage citizen contact, record referrals, and coordinate casework across teams.

Systems Change: Transformative changes to the underlying structures, relationships, policies, and practices within organisations and across sectors aimed at achieving sustained improvements in service delivery and outcomes.

Causal Loop Diagram (CLD): A visual model showing how factors interact over time to reinforce or inhibit change, used in this evaluation to map local system dynamics.

Scalable Approach to Vulnerability via Interoperability (SAVVI): A national UK-level framework supporting secure and consistent data sharing between organisations to identify and support vulnerable individuals.