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Think child, think parent, think family: interim evaluation report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSCOE Hannah, et al
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Pagination:
- 63p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Since September 2009, five local authority areas in England and the five Health and Social Care Trust areas in Northern Ireland have been implementing recommendations from the SCIE guide 'Think child, think parent, think family' when working with parents with mental health problems and their families. This document summarises the evaluation of the first year of the project. The evaluation aims to capture learning about how to implement the guide and to assess early indications of implementing the guidance in a local area. It focuses on the processes and practices that are effective; the barriers and enablers; and the costs associated with implementation. Data used for the evaluation included quarterly progress reports produced by the sites and notes from site meeting discussions. The report covers: the background and aims of the ‘Think child, think parent, think family’ implementation project and evaluation an overview of events in the first year; the project management and governance arrangements, the implementation plans themselves, overall progress of the implementation so far, and learning emerging from the project.
Challenges in evaluating a ‘think child, think parent, think family’ approach to adult mental health and children’s services
- Author:
- ROSCOE Hannah
- Journal article citation:
- Research Policy and Planning, 28(2), 2010, pp.103-114.
- Publisher:
- Social Services Research Group
In 2009, the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) published a guide on parental mental health and child welfare, which makes recommendations about how services can better support families in which there is a parent with a mental health problem. This guide is based on a ‘think family’ approach, which requires effective interagency working between adult mental health and children’s services. This article discusses how the recommendations of the guide might be implemented. In September 2009, a project team at SCIE began working with 5 sites in England and 5 Health and Social Care Trusts in Northern Ireland to implement the guide and gather further learning about good practice and solutions to some of the barriers identified. The article considers the challenges of designing methods of evaluation in these sites, particularly in terms of how to define and measure the impact of implementation. It suggests that the concept of a ‘complex intervention’ is helpful in thinking about implementation of the guide in terms of allowing local flexibility, targeting multiple parts of the health and social care system and the range of possible outcomes of the work. In line with the principles of realist evaluation, a key role of the evaluation is to help further understand and map the intervention rather than simply to provide a summation of success or failure.
Think child, think parent, think family: final evaluation report
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ROSCOE Hannah, CONSTANT Hugh, EWART-BOYE Shirley
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 64p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The final evaluation report of the SCIE 'Think child, think parent, think family' project which aimed to help services to improve their responses to parents with mental health problems and their families. The report documents the progress made by the 10 sites involved, five in England and five in Northern Ireland, and makes recommendations for future activity. The report begins by providing background to the project and the methodology used. It then documents the learning from the sites, considering first what changes to practice have been made and how this has been achieved. Areas discussed are the strategic approaches to implementation, involving service users, workforce development, improving access to services, assessment, planning and reviewing care, and providing care. It then looks at lessons about the process of change and what has helped and hindered this. Recommendations for future work are also made. The project provided useful learning about how to implement the think family approach described in the SCIE (2009) guide. Over the course of the pilot practice sites were found to place and increasing emphasis on early intervention and prevention and progress on improving existing services and the way they work together.