A Guide to Tools & Resources

eif.org.uk @TheEIFoundation

Tools and resources to help you…

•Make the case for change

•Take stock of where you are

•Understand the needs of your population

•Develop a local strategy

•Identify what works and what looks promising

•Make the economic case

•Measure your success

Making the case for change

‘Early Intervention: The Next Steps’ & ‘Early Intervention: Smart Investment, Massive Savings’ (The Allen Reports) www.grahamallenmp.co.uk/early_intervention

Fair Society Healthy Lives (The Marmot Review) www.instituteofhealthequity.org/projects/fair-society-healthy-lives-the-marmot-review

Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report 2012: Our Children Deserve Better: Prevention Pays www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officers-annual-report-2012-our-children-deserve-better-prevention-pays

A fresh start to tackling youth crime (Independent Commission on Youth Crime and Antisocial Behaviour) http://www.police-foundation.org.uk/uploads/holding/projects/fresh_start_to_tackling_youth_crime.pdf

The Triple Dividend: Thriving Lives, costing less, contributing more (The Early Action Taskforce) www.community-links.org/earlyaction/

The Wisdom of Prevention (the New Economics Foundation) www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/the-wisdom-of-prevention

Taking stock of where you are

Maturity Matrix Early Intervention Spend(Summer 2012)

Understanding the needs of your population

Slide sets available now on EIF websiteChild and Maternal Health Intelligence Network (Public Health England): www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/phe.pdf Children Count Surveys (Social Research Unit) www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/dartington.pdf Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences (Blackburn with Darwen Council) www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/blackburnwithdarwen.pdf

With more EIF resources to come later in 2014…

Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network (Public Health England)www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/phe.pdf www.chimat.org.uk

Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: A springboard for action (Local Government Association)www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=812b6160-a890-481a-8c57-5cb962bc04f3&groupId=10180

Health Needs Assessment A Practical Guide (health Development Agency) www.nice.org.uk/media/150/35/Health_Needs_Assessment_A_Practical_Guide.pdf

Developing a local strategy

Forthcoming: Report on learning from our 20 places to be launched later in 2014

Available now: A growing library of case-studies sharing learning from our 20 places. Including slide sets on Hertfordshire, Islington, Nottingham, Solihull, Staffordshire, Swindon, West Cheshire, Worcestershirehttp://www.eif.org.uk/places

Forthcoming: Report on Integrated Early Years models to be launched later in 2014

Report of the Children and Young People’s Health Outcomes Forumhttps://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/216852/CYP-report.pdf

Commissioning early help: Using evidence informed practice to improve preventative and early help services (Research in Practice) ***£20***www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=812b6160-a890-481a-8c57-5cb962bc04f3&groupId=10180

Strategy Survival Guide (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit)http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/downloads/survivalguide/downloads/ssgv2.1_overview.pdf

Making the economic case

Making an Early Intervention Business Case: What should it look like?http://eif.org.uk/images//business/2bc-whatshoulditlooklike.pdf

Making an Early Intervention Business Case: Evidence and resources http://eif.org.uk/images/business/3bc-evidenceandresources.pdf

Making an Early Intervention Business Case: Checklist and recommendations for cost-benefit analysis http://eif.org.uk/images/business/4bc-checklistandrecsforcba.pdf

Forthcoming: Social Investment: Using Social Impact Bonds to Support Early Intervention (to be launched March 2014)

What Works and what looks promisingThe Early Intervention Guidebook

• An online platform that will provide information about effective Early Intervention methods, in order to improve children’s wellbeing and save money.

• It will continually evolve and expand as new reviews are undertaken and new information is added.

• It will include tools and resources for improving Early Intervention in a local area.

• It will include information about programmes, systems and practice primarily aimed at commissioners.

If you would like to know more about the Guidebook or would like to be informed when it launches on the website, please email info@eif.org.uk

‘What Works’ and what looks promisingCurrent and potential EIF reviews

Complete: • Domestic Violence

Ongoing:• Information on evidence based Early Intervention programmes

Currently being considered:• Social and emotional skills in school • Edge of Care • Team around the family • Ante-natal programmes • Supporting positive parent child interactions • Supporting communities to take forward EI (including through coproduction and volunteering)

http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/

www.investinginchildren.eu

http://guidance.nice.org.uk

http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/

http://www.c4eo.org.uk

http://www.parentingresearch.org.uk

http://education.gov.uk/commissioning-toolkit/Programme/Index

http://project-oracle.com/projects/all-projects/

What Works and what looks promisingOther resources

Measuring your success – Guides to evaluation

Good impact evaluation design – basic principles (slide set)http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/evaluationdesign.pdf

The Magenta Bookhttps://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-magenta-book

Better Evaluation Frameworkhttp://betterevaluation.org/plan

Handbook on Impact Evaluation: Quantitative Methods and Practiceshttps://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2693

Evaluation: Measuring What Workshttp://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/Evaluation/Pages/default.aspx

User Friendly Handbook for Project Evaluationhttps://apps-spisu.sws.iastate.edu/resources/view/id/50

Measuring your success – case studies

Chance UKAn Early Intervention programme based around mentoring for children aged 5-11 years with behavioural difficultieshttp://www.chanceuk.com/site/61/214.html

Cost benefit analysis in Greater Manchester http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/greatermanchester.pdf

West Cheshire Integrated Early SupportMeasuring the impact of the county wide Integrated Early Support system for children from 0-18 in West Cheshire http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/westcheshire.pdf

Realising Ambition Projecta UK wide programme of projects to help young people fulfil their potential and avoid the pathways into offending http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/realisingambition.pdf

Vestia Community TrustEvaluating the cashable savings achieved through services for families facing severe & multiple disadvantage in Worcestershirehttp://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/worcestershire.pdf

Achievement for All 3Asprogramme to improve outcomes in reading, writing and maths for children and young people eligible for the Pupil Premium and those identified with Special Educational Needs and Disabilitieshttp://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/allthreeas.pdf