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Fairer Futures Partnership Programme: evaluation strategy
Sets out the Scottish Government's approach to evaluating its Fairer Futures Partnership programme.
Next steps and timeline
A national evaluation of the FFP expansion areas is currently being commissioned and is scheduled to begin in July 2025, running through to September 2026. Alongside this we will be progressing work to:
- disseminate the findings and support the use of learning from the first phase of evaluations – both for local partnerships and for Scottish Government policy, including for the next and final Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan under the 2017 Act (for 2026-2031);
- develop and embed a cross-Scottish Government outcomes framework for whole family support that can be used by the FFPs;
- support partners with improvements to monitoring data and evidencing outcomes;
- progress the QED study in Dundee (subject to data availability); and
- develop our approach to how we might better understand the value for money of the FFP programme.
Further research and evaluation work will be developed in the future as policy needs emerge and evolve, and it is intended that the strategy will be updated at appropriate intervals to reflect this.