Evaluation of Small Steps Big Changes: First Annual Evaluation Report: 2019

Small Steps Big Changes (SSBC) is a programme hosted by Nottingham CityCare Partnership and supported by the National Lottery Community Fund’s A Better Start Initiative. The programme operates across four wards in Nottingham: Aspley, Bulwell, Hyson Green & Arboretum, and St Ann’s. It aims to improve outcomes for 0-3-year-old children in the areas of: diet and nutrition, social and emotional skills, and language and communication skills. It also aims to bring about system change by ‘tipping the system on its head’ and empowering parents, communities and workforces to coproduce services and achieve together. Small Steps Big Changes commissions a range of services and activities (for further details please see: www.smallstepsbigchanges.org.uk) to achieve these aims and those that are going be evaluated within the first year of the evaluation are detailed below. The Nottingham Centre for Children, Young People and Families (NCCYPF) commenced its evaluation and learning partnership with SSBC in May 2018. This report details the first year of the evaluation, focused on the Dolly Parton Imagination Library (DPIL) and the Small Steps at Home programme, and commencing the economic costs benefit exercise.