Whole Family Wellbeing Funding (WFWF): year 1 - process evaluation - interim report

Annex 1: WFWF Logic Model (developed by Scottish Government)

Text only description of WFWF Logic Model, version from July 2022

Overall Aim: Every family that needs support gets the right family support at the right time, for as long as it is needed, to fulfil children's rights to be raised safely in their own families.

Core components for Holistic Whole Family Support, these components underpin the logic model and help organise it according to what is set out in the Routemap: Children and Families at the Centre of service design; Availability and Access; Whole System Approach; Leadership, Workforce, and Culture.

Inputs (area within scope of 2022-2023 evaluation):

• Element 1: CSPP direct funding support to scale innovative Family Support practice and build capacity for whole system change.
• Element 2a: Whole System change through support for local system assessment and development (including 3 CSPP collaborative partnerships).
• Element 2b: Whole System change through national system change to support development.
• Evaluation process to inform learning and future funding approaches.
• Element 3: Connections to logic model to be confirmed once proposals agreed. To support new, Scottish Government led national policy delivery that will help transform how families are supported. (e.g. The Promise, place-based child poverty interventions, Covid recovery).
• Non-financial inputs: Collaborative leadership across local and national level, Workforce skills and experience, Organisational cultures of learning and system change, Family Support Principles.

Activities (at national level) (area within scope of 2022-2023 evaluation):

• Investment & innovation to deliver.
• National Learning into Action Network (method: Readiness and Discovery, Focused Discovery, Learning into Action, and Review and Planning).
• Coaching and Leadership support.
• Self-assessment framework, Supporting Families: A National Self-Assessment Toolkit for Change.
• Family Support Advisory Group (FSAG) Improving Commissioning and Procurement activity.
• Support for skill development.
• Activities are carried out with: Scottish Government, FSAG, CSPP strategic leads, CSPP staff, Third sector partners, COSLA.

Activities (at local level) (area within scope of 2022-2023 evaluation):

• CSPPs engage with wide range of children & families on design of services (e.g those with experience of these services).
• CSPPs begin to scale up local transformative and effective approaches.
• CSPPs and partners identify support for needs assessment, system analysis and change planning.
• Local assessment of need completed and plans for system change developed by CSPPs.
• Planning for and procuring support/recruiting staff (where needed) to scale up and/or deliver plans (can take a year in practice).
• Activities are carried out with: Children, Young People and Families (CYPF), CSPP strategic leads, CSPP staff, Adult services staff, Third sector partners, Health/public health partners; community link workers; mental health practitioners; school nursing service; employability services; primary care; welfare rights; income maximisation advisors and financial support.

Activities (at local level) (area within scope of 2022-2023 evaluation):

• CSPPs begin to test new system approaches to family support (as per strategic plans).
• Establishing processes to gather regular volunteered feedback on services from children, young people and families. To be based on data and CYPF views at CSPP strategic level created to inform change.
• Expand use of locally-based multi-agency services co-ordinating support.
• Good Practiceidentified and used by other CSPPs and partners (shared at senior levels) including via self-evaluation.
• Reporting mechanisms are streamlined, accessible, and less bureaucratic.

Early Outcomes (some evidence available by end of year 1) (area within scope of 2022-2023 evaluation):

• Early evidence of meaningful and ongoing participation by CYPF in service design which ensures choice and control
• CSPPs begin embedding the key principles for holistic whole family support within their own systems and structures
• CSPPs start to redesign/design delivery of new Whole Family Support services, including removing barriers for CYPF to accessing support
• Early evidence of improved points of access to services in communities
• Early evidence that feedback on Children's Services informing Adult and Related Services planning/delivery
• Early evidence of non-siloed, aligned and proportionate Family Support funding that matches scale of need
• Local investment in planning system change (recognise budgets already set for 2022-23)
• Early evidence of More collaborative work across CSPP partners and with adult services (share resources, data, feedback, and information)
• Delivery partners (including 3rd sector) are integral to service design & delivery of Whole Family Support
• Increased Whole Family Support service capacity – scaled and new services are integrated
• Build transformational capacity within CSPP for whole system change
• Empowerment for innovation
• Development of holistic workforce approach

Early Outcomes (some evidence available between end of year 2 and 4), lower certainty of Funding contribution to outcomes:

• Support is stigma-free, needs/rights-led
• Services shift to needs and rights based planning and participation
• Services maintain respectful relationships with CYPF
• More families receive whole family support
• Family Support is and is perceived as universally accessible providing early help and support
• Family Support is delivered where and when suits families
• Commissioning and Procurement (planning, service design and purchasing) is transformed
• Shared accountability for whole system/ joined up approach
• Children's Services Planning focused on Whole Family Support informed by national priorities, CYPF & local need, evidence-based (local and national data)
• Clear & shared understanding of families across whole system (CSPPs, SG, 3^rd Sector)
• Address power dynamics (between SG, CSPPs, 3^rd sector, and CYPF)
• Workforce wellbeing is improved and integral to delivery of Family Support
• CSPPs support the development of a national level understanding of the opportunities and barriers they face in delivering transformational change in family support and an awareness of how future WFW funding can be most effectively deployed

Intermediate Outcomes (some evidence available by end of Funding), lower certainty of Funding contribution to outcomes:

• Parents/carers are more able to access employability and other support to improve their finances
• Services are more accessible – CYPF know where to go, receive help when needed
• Better collective awareness of available support among CYPF
• Reduced 'missing middle' between universal and statutory services
• Collaborative, multi-agency approach to the funding, commissioning and delivery of family support
• Cross-sectoral commitment to collaboration and innovation which empowers and supports the workforce to provide family-centred holistic support
• CSPPs work towards a clear vision that is shaped by the WFWF principles and the voices of children and families, states a role for all sectors, and which describes how Family Support will be delivered in their communities

Long-term Outcomes (that the Funding will contribute to), lower certainty of Funding contribution to outcomes:

• Improved family wellbeing
• Reduced inequalities in family wellbeing
• Reduction in families requiring crisis intervention
• Reduction in the number of children and young people living away from their families
• Increase in families taking up wider supports
• Sustainable Whole Family Support service provision maintained through budget allocations

Notes: Activities, Outputs, and Early Outcomes and progress towards these by the end of Year 1 will differ between CSPPs. This logic model acknowledges that each CSPP will have different priorities for the funding and will be at different stages in their planning and delivery journey.

Additionally, details in the Activities and Outputs, and 'With whom?' columns will be developed based on further consultation and CSPP plans for funding.