Five Family Payments evaluation: annex A - mixed methods research

Appendix A. Five Family Payments logic model

Immediate outcomes

• The benefit is well promoted (All benefits)
• The benefit and its eligibility criteria are well understood (All benefits)
• The benefit is taken up (All benefits)
• Making an application is clear and easy (All benefits)
• Applications are processed in a timely manner (All benefits)
• Awareness is raised about other forms of support (All benefits)
• Clients feel they have been treated with dignity, fairness and respect (All benefits)
• Card reduces stigma and is easy to use (Best Start Foods)
• Card provides access to a range of retailers (Best Start Foods)
• Card provides access to a range of healthy foods (Best Start Foods)

Short-term outcomes

• Increased child-related spend (All benefits)
• Reduced pressure on household finances (All benefits)
• Reduced money-related stress (All benefits)
• Children able to participate in social and educational opportunities (Scottish Child Payment, Best Start Grant)
• Improved position of main carers within households (Scottish Child Payment)
• Grant reaches people at key transition points in child’s life (Best Start Grant)
• Families financially supported at key transition points (Best Start Grant)
• Healthy foods are more affordable (Best Start Foods)
• Mothers and children eat more healthy foods (Best Start Foods)
• Supports healthier shopping habits and meal planning (Best Start Foods)

Medium-term outcomes

• Improved health and wellbeing (All benefits)
• Reduced incidence of material deprivation (All benefits)
• Positive impact on Scottish economy (All benefits)
• Reduced incidence of debt (All benefits)
• Reduced incidence of food insecurity (Scottish Child Payment, Best Start Foods)
• Reduced barriers to education and labour market (Scottish Child Payment)
• Increased healthy eating behaviours (Best Start Foods)

Long-term outcomes and impacts

The long-term impacts in the logic model (reduced child poverty, reduced inequality of outcomes for children, reduced incidence of social exclusion, and reduced health inequalities) relate not only to the Five Family Payments but to the wider government outcomes for children and families, and are influenced by all social security interventions, as well as other interventions designed to support families with children across the Scottish Government. As such, the Five Family Payments will play an important, but not exclusive, role in contributing to these.