National Evaluation for Adults Facing Chronic Exclusion Programme
‘Reaching Out – An Action Plan for Social Exclusion’ recommended the establishment of 12 pilot sites to test the effectiveness of alternative approaches to improving outcomes for people with chaotic lives and multiple needs – or adults facing chronic exclusion. £6 million has been made available to support this initiative from the Departments of Health, Communities & Local Government, Work & Pensions and the Home Office.
The aims of the pilots are to:
- Improve outcomes for the individuals, their families and communities
- Improve individuals' ability to engage with services
- Increase the support available to excluded adults with multiple needs
- Help people negotiate points of transitionin their lives
The pilots are due to be announced before the summer.
We are inviting applications from organisations to undertake the accompanying, three year National Evaluation Programme. £400,000 has been allocated for the evaluation which will be hosted by CSIP.
The overall aim of the evaluation is to document, analyse and interpret the experiences of implementing the various approaches toward supporting this client group. It will assess how similar client groups elsewhere can be given improved support to generate better outcomes.
All the pilots will be in different areas with contrasting approaches to working with groups with specific and varying challenges. It is therefore important that the national programme:
- Provides clear evaluative comparisons using quantitative and qualitative data assessing inputs, user outcomes and ways of delivering services
- Can deliver reliable data on the issue of cost effectiveness and value for money from each pilot and the components of the intervention
- Can identify the changes which the pilots have made to commissioning and systemic processes that other local areas may wish to replicate
- Can advise on implications and limitations of findings within the evaluation
Applicants should complete the attached pro–forma and return to the Adults facing Chronic Exclusion Team by 10am on Tuesday 15 May 2007. Applications received after this time will not be accepted. Short–listed applicants will be invited to interview on either Thursday 24 or Friday 25 May 2007, in London. We will expect the successful applicants to begin work at the beginning of June.
Helen Cash and Nick O'Shea, Programme Managers, can be contacted for further information if required. The office number is 020 7944 8332, or you can e–mail to: Helen.cash@communities.gsi.gov.uk or nick.o'shea@communities.gsi.gov.uk.
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