Family Wellbeing Partnership in Clackmannanshire: evaluation - summary report
A summary of the key findings from the evaluation of the Family Wellbeing Partnership (FWP) in Clackmannanshire.
Conclusion
The FWP has had a positive impact on the wellbeing of individuals and families using FWP services and has led to innovative models of service delivery based on enhanced trust, collaboration, and co-design with the community. Limitations of the data collected include a lack of longer-term and quantifiable data, including on key long-term outcomes, which has resulted in a lack of evidence at this point about longer-term impacts.
The evaluation has found that the FWP has supported activities and developments designed to improve the wellbeing of local communities and to tackle child poverty. The four workstreams analysed as part of this project encompassed a diverse range of projects which helped a wide range of families in Clackmannanshire in relation to a variety of outcomes. This ranged from: the employability skills and confidence-building activities for job-seekers in the Enhancing Employability workstream; to the strengthening of relationships between young people, parents and carers, school staff and the wider community through the CATS workstream; the development of an inclusive and flexible childcare system through CWP; and the provision of proactive and coordinated services for families at risk of crisis through STRIVE. Moreover, these workstreams were developed in an integrated fashion with multiple governance and relational links across the projects to develop a holistic and collaborative approach to family wellbeing.
The FWP approach holds important lessons for other communities across Scotland in designing a wellbeing approach that is flexible, preventative, integrative and multidisciplinary. In particular, eight factors have been crucial to the successes of the FWP approach in Clackmannanshire: 1) the leadership and governance of the FWP, 2) long-term, flexible funding, 3) local context and place-based approaches, 4) family engagement, 5) collaborative leadership and multidisciplinary service delivery, 6) co-design and empowering families to own activities, 7) communication and shared vision, and 8) data collection and management.