Nottingham Legacy have commissioned the Tilda Goldberg Centre for Social Work and Social Care at the University of Bedfordshire to independently evaluate Nottingham Legacy services, with a specific focus upon accommodation, mental health and positive destinations.

Nottingham legacy service was established with the aim of supporting care experienced young people (CEYP) aged 16-25 years to promote sustainable change in these young people’s lives – with a specific focus upon accommodation, mental health and positive destinations. The suite of services that have and/or in the process of being implemented aim to:

• Develop a sustainable pathway to suitable accommodation for young people with additional support needs;
• Explore partnership working to develop a network of positive providers who can offer accommodation options for young people;
• Develop services that promote the emotional well-being of young people as they transition to adulthood and reduce the impact of loneliness;
• Develop a transition pathway from CAMHS to Adult Services for care experienced young people;
• Ensure support for positive destinations which includes education, employment or training (EET) is holistic and takes account of health and wellbeing;
• Promote aspiration and support those who wish to engage in EET;
• Develop a pathway for CEYP who choose to become parents which includes advice and support for positive parenting.

The evaluation being conducted will help to answer the following questions:

• How was the partnership working developed?
• What worked well?
• Were there any aspects of partnership working which made the development of services more difficult?
• The process of systems and culture change and the process of transferring theory into practice – have partners taken on board both the theory and the practical application of systems and culture change?
• What long term lessons have been learned across the systems?
• Young people’s perspectives on the service offer, what worked well and what could be developed further?
• Information Management – looking at cost benefit analysis of services - what services or parts of services have really made a difference to the lives of young people?
• Is the developed model of partnership working transferrable to other opportunities?
• Succession planning – how can the evaluation support future funding applications and commissioning of services within Nottingham?

Please contact Seana Friel if you would like more information.