Local Authority ResearchConsortium: Making a

Difference to Services forChildren

2

Institutional/systemic embedding

Changes to outcomes

Changes to routines, experiences, attitudes

Changes to inputs/processes

NFER impact model

4

3

2

1

[Morris and Golden, 2005]

LARC 1: (E.g.) Integrated working and LAC

The study of the CAF was a proxy for exploring the impact of integrated working in Children’s Services.

Looking at the CAF process helped to provide insights into the impact that integrated practice in children’s services had on:

children and young people their families the professionals who worked with them the services themselves

Theory

Hypotheses

Observations

Programme specification

Based on Pawson and Tilley, 1997

Early findings suggest that the CAF process appears to have:

For further details about the findings, please contact:

W: www.larc-research.org.ukE: larc@nfer.ac.ukT: 01753 523 156

For further information about LARC3, please contact Jane Lewis:

Jane@rip.org.uk