Big Lottery Fund

Improving Futures is a UK-wide programme that aims to improve the lives of children growing up in families with multiple and complex needs.

Improving Futures also sets out to improve knowledge and evidence about the types of approaches that make the most difference to children’s futures, so evaluation and learning are an essential part of the programme.

We have commissioned Ecorys (in partnership with Parenting UK, the University of Nottingham and Ipsos Mori) to conduct a five-year evaluation of Improving Futures programme from 2011.

The key features of the evaluation are:

• A project-level evaluation which will support projects to build their own evaluation plans.
• A programme evaluation which will include the formation of a Family Advisory Panel. This will help to ensure that our approach is relevant to families with multiple and complex needs.
• Sharing learning through an evaluation website, learning events and seminars.

Read more about the evaluators’ plans here 
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Please contact us if you have any questions or comments.