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Reducing Reoffending Change Fund Evaluation of Year 1 - Public Social Partnership Development
This research report outlines findings of an evaluation of Public Social Partnership development funded by Year One of the Reducing Reoffending Change Fund. It focuses on how the funding was used, and what was achieved by the partnerships in the first six months of the Fund.
Appendix 5 - Development Funding Breakdown
Detailed analysis of how the Development Funding is not possible because of the variation in the way the information is presented. The following breakdown of projected, not actual, spend is based on our interpretation of budget descriptions.
Development Funding
| Categorisation of spend | Total projection | Percentage of overall budget | Example of spend |
|---|---|---|---|
| Staff | £263,150 | 62% | The development funding was used to backfill a post, appoint a new worker or increase the hours of existing staff. |
| Lead partners costs e.g. equipment, administration, management fees | £62,416 | 15% | These included covering costs of telephone calls and IT. |
| Consultants | £26,280 | 6% | Consultants were used for activities such as undertaking mapping exercises and carrying out service user consultation. |
| Service user consultation | £15,713 | 4% | Examples include venue hire, catering and reimbursement of out of pocket expenses. Some partners suggested that good hospitality made service users feel valued and encouraged them to share their views because it signalled that their contribution was important. |
| Programme resources e.g. materials, training, piloting | £19,100 | 4% | Some partners spent part of their budget on resources, for example one hired a graphic designer to produce a mock up of marketing material that would be distributed in the community (both to attract potential service users and provide information to the community about the project). Other examples include investing in training tools for mentors, running a small pilot of their programme to identify any practical issues in service delivery and purchasing training for PSP staff and mentors. |
| Partnership facilitation e.g. venue hire | £10,700 | 3% | The use of funds to aid partnership working included hiring venues that were big enough to accommodate full partnership meetings and appointing external facilitators to lead stakeholder meetings. |
| Other | £12,894 | 3% | This category was used for budgets that could not be attributed specifically to any of the areas above e.g. PSP "stationery" |
| Travel | £10,525 | 2% | Typically this was not broken down -one PSP specified this would be used to reimburse based on mileage |
| Partners' costs | £5,461 | 1% | Some PSPs reimbursed partners' for their time when undertaking PSP activities or attending meetings. |
| Total | £426,239 |
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