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Making choice and control a reality for disabled people: Right to Control Trailblazers evaluation: a feasibility study
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Office for Disability Issues
- Publication year:
- 2009
- Pagination:
- 81p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Right to Control is a new legal right for disabled people, which gives them more choice and control over the support they need to go about their daily lives. From 2010, this initiative will be piloted in around 8 local authority Trailblazers. The Trailblazer sites will target a wide range of disabled adults, including people with learning disabilities and mental health problems. This feasibility study was commissioned in order to produce a set of recommendations for an evaluation of the Right to Control Trailblazer sites. The study approach involved one-to-one consultation with professional stakeholders, local authority representatives, and disabled adults, followed by a stakeholder workshop. Two possible models are considered: a matched area comparison design where outcomes for disabled people in Trailblazer areas are compared to those in matched non-Trailblazer areas; and a randomised controlled trial run within Trailblazer areas comparing disabled people allocated to Right to Control or to a control group. Of these 2 designs, the matched area design is broadly favoured as long as it can provide robust evidence of impact.
Impacts of the job retention and rehabilitation pilot
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, et al
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 172p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Job Retention and Rehabilitation Pilot (JRRP) was undertaken to test out boosting the usual help for those off work due to sickness and ill health, to return to and retain their job. The report presents information about the experience of participating in the trial, and the second report provides a quantitative assessment of the impacts of the trial on return-to-work rates, health, and other measures. Key findings of the impact assessment were that this particular method of recruiting and assisting people to retain employment was not effective, the interventions had no significant impact on the group of people recruited into the trial across key return-to-work measures. Similar rates of return to work were observed in the intervention groups as in the control group. There were however some minor impacts, both positive and negative, on certain subgroups: specifically, improved return-to-work rates for those off work because of an injury; and lower return-to-work rates for those with mental health issues.
Evaluation of coping with crying: final report
- Authors:
- COSTER Denise, BRYSON Caroline, PURDON Susan
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 60
- Place of publication:
- London
Reports on an evaluation of the Coping with Crying programme, a psycho-educational film designed to help expectant and new parents cope with their babies crying, and to reduce the incidence of non-accidental head injuries (NAHI). The film was introduced in 24 hospitals and birthing units across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. During the time of the pilot, over 41,000 saw the film. The pilot was evaluated using a mixed-method, quasi-experimental evaluation design. It aimed to understand differences in the reach of the programme between different models of delivery and the relative impact of showing the film at different times and in different ways on parents’ knowledge, attitudes and self-reported behaviours. Research methodology involved output and administrative data on the numbers and characteristics of parents who watched the film; completed surveys from parents who had, and had not watched the film; and focus groups with parents and staff to explore how the programme was affecting them. Key findings include that watching the film in hospital after birth led to a small improvement in parents’ reported knowledge about infant crying and the dangers of shaking their baby. Watching the film in the antenatal or postnatal period, after discharge from hospital, also had a positive impact on parents and it was much greater than in hospitals. The evaluation did not detect an impact on rates of injuries as a result of watching the film. The report concludes that the film has the greatest impact when shown to parents in community settings during the perinatal period (after the start of the second trimester of pregnancy and before the baby is six weeks old). (Edited publisher abstract)
Evaluation of the preventing non-accidential head injuries programme: impact report
- Authors:
- COSTER Denise, BRYSON Caroline, PURDON Susan
- Publisher:
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children
- Publication year:
- 2014
- Pagination:
- 48
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents the key findings from one aspect of an evaluation of the NSPCC'S Preventing Non-Accidential Health Injuries programme. The programme consisted of a DVD containing information about the effect of head injuries on babies as well as tips on how to cope with difficulties such as crying. It was introduced in 24 hospitals or birthing units in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland. This evaluation focuses on a survey of parents of newborn babies who watched a 10-minute DVD shortly before they were discharged from hospital or at home following a home birth. Survey responses of the parents who had seen the DVD were compared with parents from different areas where the DVD was not being shown. Overall the study found that the DVD was achieving its aims and making children safer through a range of small changes to parents' knowledge, attitudes and behaviours. Parents who viewed the DVD reported using a range of coping strategies more often than parents who had not watched the DVD. However, it was also noted that the DVD made a small number of parents more anxious and less confident in their ability to cope with a crying baby, so it is recommended that the DVD is shown in environments where parents have access to support. (Original abstract)
Aiming high for young people: evaluation feasibility study: final report
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, BRYSON Caroline, FINCH Steven
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Education
- Publication year:
- 2010
- Pagination:
- 47p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This feasibility study, for the Department of Education (DFE, formerly Department for Children, Schools and Families), gives recommendations for the evaluation of the Aiming High for Young People (AHYP) strategy, launched in 2007 in the United Kingdom. By assessing AHYP stakeholders’ (DFE and the Treasury) needs through a consultation exercise, the authors identify the questions to be asked in the evaluation. The importance of understanding and provision of a measured, evidence-based model of how local area activity under AHYP relates to participation in positive activities by young people, especially amongst the hard-to-reach groups, is addressed. Also, is increased participation related to AHYP activity, improved education and employment outcomes for young people, does AHYP alter communities’ stereotyped attitudes of young people and is it cost effective? By reviewing existing data on provision, participation and sampling of young people, the authors summarise potential, evaluation designs in sections 3 to 7. That text is supported by an introduction detailing AHYP strategy, aims/stages of the study and putting those into context, a ‘summing up’ section and 4 appendices including details of those consulted, the young researcher focus group report and the ‘TellUs4 questions around participation for years 8 and 10’.
Analysis of the choices and constraints questions on the families and children study
- Authors:
- D'SOUZA John, CONOLLY Anne, PURDON Susan
- Publisher:
- Great Britain. Department for Work and Pensions
- Publication year:
- 2008
- Pagination:
- 69p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The National Centre for Social Research (Natcen) was commissioned by the Department for Work and Pensions to test the proposed analysis of a new question set being used in Wave 8 of the Families and Children Study (FACS). The new questions asked mothers about their attitudes towards work and parenting, which were followed by a card-sort exercise with each card having a statement relating to how big a factor issues related to work and parenting were for mothers moving into or staying in work. The analysis approach suggested for the new question set was Latent Class Analysis (LCA). Natcen was asked to determine whether this was a reasonable analysis approach that generated plausible and meaningful groups. The research then went on to consider the characteristics of the groups generated in terms of attitudes and demographics.
Evaluation of the Troubled Families programme. Technical report: impact evaluation using survey data
- Authors:
- PURDON Susan, BRYSON Caroline, BRYSON PURDON SOCIAL RESEARCH
- Publication year:
- 2016
- Pagination:
- 76
- Place of publication:
- London
Technical report documenting the design of the face-to-face survey and the analysis undertaken to assess the impacts of the Troubled Families programme on the outcomes collected within the survey. The report explains the methods used in designing and analysing the survey, the profile of the families interviewed and the services they received, and the approach to the impact analysis. It then looks at the outcome measures collected in the survey and the comparison of the outcomes of Troubled Families and matched comparison group families across the following domains: housing, employment and finances; education; anti-social behaviour and crime; health, alcohol and drug abuse, well-being and family relationships; attitudes and confidence. The final section reports on the experiences of families going through the Troubled Families Programme, in particular focusing on the role of their key worker. The results found that the Troubled Families group did not have statistically significantly better outcomes in the three months prior to the interview than the matched comparison group. However the Troubled Families group report they were managing well financially, and better than previously, than do the matched comparison group. The majority of families who had been going through the programme were also very positively about the role of their key worker. (Edited publisher abstract)