Best Start Foods: Evaluation
The document evaluates Scotland's Best Start Foods program, designed to support low-income families in purchasing nutritious food for their children. The program provides weekly payments to eligible families through a payment card, with the amount dependent on the child's age. The evaluation combined stakeholder interviews and data analysis to measure the program's success in fostering healthy eating, reducing food insecurity, and enhancing children and mothers' health and wellbeing. Findings suggest the program is well-received and positively affects shopping habits and finances, but faces challenges with awareness, uptake, and application processing. While immediate and short-term outcomes are being met, the evaluation recommends improvements in promotion, communication, and eligibility to achieve medium-term outcomes. Future evaluations will need more data to determine long-term impacts. **This summary was written by an AI model and therefore should not be considered a definitive summary of the report. If you are aware of inaccuracies, please email evaluation.registry@cabinetoffice.gov.uk.**
Description
- Lead department
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The Scottish Government (The Scottish Government)
- Evaluation stage
- A complete evaluation report
- Other departments
- No other departments listed
- Evaluation types
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Impact evaluation
Process evaluation
- Impact methods
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Theory-based methods
- Theory-based methods
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Other
- Process methods
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Individual interviews
Other
Surveys and polling
- Grant information
- This intervention is not distributing funding via a grant
- Government Major Project information
- This intervention is not a major project
- Policies
- No policies provided
Event Dates
- Event Name
- Publication of final results
- Event date
- July 2022
Evaluation Costs
- Cost
- Not provided
Evaluation sharing
- Link(s) to published report(s)
- Yes
- Links to evaluation plans
- No link provided
- Links to published evaluations (DEBUGGING)
- No final report link found.
- Findings
- Not provided
- Permission to share confirmed
- Yes