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Child poverty pathfinders in Dundee and Glasgow: phase two evaluation - summary report

This independent evaluation reports impacts and learning from the Child Poverty Pathfinders in Dundee and Glasgow, place-based partnerships aimed at system change to tackle child poverty. The evaluation explores engagement, delivery, barriers, impacts and value-for-money insights.


Footnotes

1 Cited on Improvement Service webpages supporting ‘A whole system approach and system change’ Accessed 14/5/25.

2 For phase 1 reports see: Child poverty pathfinders - early implementation process: evaluation - gov.scot and Tackling child poverty pathfinders: evaluability assessment

3 See UK Government website guidance for evaluating digital health products for a description of Quasi-Experimental studies. Accessed 15/5/25.

4 A support service for citizens across Glasgow, initially established during the pandemic, that became part of the pathfinder.

5 In this context, we mean parents of children aged 16 or under and who are living in the same household.

6 Glasgow Helps captures some outcomes in their monitoring data, via ‘concerns matrix’ scores. These involve scoring clients on a scale from 1 to 10 as to how big a concern the issues they present with are when a ‘case’ is first opened and then again when support has been provided and the ‘case’ is closed.

7 See Glasgow Community Planning Partnership webpages

8 Glasgow Community Planning Partnership Performance Management Framework: IS approach to development

Contact

Email: social-justice-analysis@gov.scot

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