Research and analysis

Short breaks pathfinder evaluation

This report was undertaken between 2009 and 2010 to understand more about how the pathfinder sites had commissioned and provided different packages of short breaks.

From:
Department for Education
Published
10 December 2010

Documents

Short breaks pathfinder evaluation

Ref: DFE-RR062

PDF, 1.02 MB, 110 pages

Short breaks pathfinder evaluation: interim report - end of phase one

Ref: DCSF-RR223

PDF, 486 KB, 28 pages

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Details

This report by the National Development Team for Inclusion (NDTi) describes the evaluation of the 21 Short Break Pathfinder sites. It was undertaken in late 2009 and early 2010 with the purpose of understanding more about how the Pathfinder sites had gone about commissioning and providing different packages of short breaks.

The report aims to inform local authority and PCT practice in the future; the development of short break policy and direction of the AHDC short break programme; and future government spending proposals.

The evaluation was conducted in two phases using an approach based upon ‘Realistic Evaluation’. Rather than just report on what had happened, this methodology seeks to understand how things have or have not worked, in what situations, with the particular groups of people and why those outcomes were achieved.

Published 10 December 2010