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Costs and economic consequences of Parent Pioneers, a pilot Mellow Futures programme for mothers with learning difficulties
- Authors:
- BAUER Annette, WILLIAMS Gemma
- Publisher:
- Personal Social Services Research Unit
- Publication year:
- 2015
- Pagination:
- 20
- Place of publication:
- London
This report presents estimates of the costs of delivering the pilots of the Mellow Futures programme in Islington and Northumberland, looking at the costs of providing the intervention, the outcomes achieved by the intervention and the economic consequences. The Mellow Futures programme is a group based parenting programme that has been adapted to specifically meet the needs of parents with learning difficulties and consists of two distinct parts: the antenatal group is a six weeks course that aims to help mothers-to-be identify their own needs and to access support in pregnancy and after birth; the postnatal group aims to provide parents with the support they need to develop strong relationships with their newborn babies and lasts 14 weeks. In both localities the costs of the professionally provided programme were only up to one-third of the care package costs. They thus presented a relatively small part of the overall cost of support that these mothers with learning difficulties accessed during the perinatal period. The findings indicate that there could be short-term reductions in costs to public sector because of reduced child welfare activities. (Edited publisher abstract)