Implementation Evaluation of Slough Children's Services Trust

This document describes an evaluation of the Slough Children's Services Trust, which was established to improve children's services after receiving inadequate ratings. The Trust aimed to enhance service quality, workforce stability, and partnerships, with a focus on strong leadership and child-centered practices. The evaluation, conducted by Kantar Public, employed interviews, surveys, document reviews, and performance indicators to assess the Trust's impact from 2015 to 2017. Results showed progress in vision clarity, practice improvement, workforce development, and partnerships, but also identified ongoing challenges such as staff turnover, communication issues, and understanding of case assessments. The Trust made efforts to reduce agency worker reliance and improve staff training, but resource constraints limited the effectiveness of performance management strategies. Despite significant improvements, further work is required to consistently deliver high-quality services and fully embed changes. The evaluation underscores the importance of clear communication, collaboration, and resource access for successful implementation of the Trust model. **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: Department for Education (DfE)
• Evaluation stage: A complete evaluation report
• Other departments: No other departments listed
• Evaluation types: Process evaluation
• Process methods: Individual interviews; Other; 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 2018

Evaluation Costs

• Cost: Not provided

Evaluation sharing

• Link(s) to published report(s): Yes
• Links to evaluation plans: No link provided
• Findings: Not provided
• Permission to share confirmed: Yes