Evaluation of the Nottingham legacy service

Nottingham Legacy have commissioned the Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care at the ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ to independently evaluate Nottingham Legacy services, with a specific focus upon accommodation, mental health and positive destinations.

Nottingham legacy service was established with the aim of supporting care experienced young people (CEYP) aged 16-25 years to promote sustainable change in these young people’s lives – with a specific focus upon accommodation, mental health and positive destinations. The suite of services that have and/or in the process of being implemented aim to:

  • Develop a sustainable pathway to suitable accommodation for young people with additional support needs;
  • Explore partnership working to develop a network of positive providers who can offer accommodation options for young people;
  • Develop services that promote the emotional well-being of young people as they transition to adulthood and reduce the impact of loneliness;
  • Develop a transition pathway from CAMHS to Adult Services for care experienced young people;
  • Ensure support for positive destinations which includes education, employment or training (EET) is holistic and takes account of health and wellbeing;
  • Promote aspiration and support those who wish to engage in EET;
  • Develop a pathway for CEYP who choose to become parents which includes advice and support for positive parenting.

The evaluation being conducted will help to answer the following questions:

  • How was the partnership working developed?
  • What worked well?
  • Were there any aspects of partnership working which made the development of services more difficult?
  • The process of systems and culture change and the process of transferring theory into practice – have partners taken on board both the theory and the practical application of systems and culture change?
  • What long term lessons have been learned across the systems?
  • Young people’s perspectives on the service offer, what worked well and what could be developed further?
  • Information Management – looking at cost benefit analysis of services - what services or parts of services have really made a difference to the lives of young people?
  • Is the developed model of partnership working transferrable to other opportunities?
  • Succession planning – how can the evaluation support future funding applications and commissioning of services within Nottingham?

Please contact Seana Friel if you would like more information.

address

Tilda Goldberg Centre
Institute of Applied Social Research
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½
ÌìÃÀ´«Ã½ Square
Luton, UK
LU1 3JU

telephone

Hemlata Naranbhai
Research Administrator

+44 (0)1582 743885

Tilda Goldberg Centre for social work and social care