eif.org.uk
@TheEIFoundation

• Make the case for change
• Take stock of where you are
• Understand the needs of your population
• Develop a local strategy
• Identify what works and what looks promising
• Make the economic case
• Measure your success

‘Early Intervention: The Next Steps’ &
‘Early Intervention: Smart Investment,
Massive Savings’ (The Allen Reports) www.grahamallenmp.co.uk/early_intervention
Chief Medical Officer's Annual Report
2012: Our Children Deserve Better:
Prevention Pays www.gov.uk/government/publications/chief-medical-officersannual-report-2012-our-children-deserve-better-preventionpays
The Triple Dividend: Thriving Lives, costing less, contributing more (The
Early Action Taskforce) www.community-links.org/earlyaction/
Fair Society Healthy Lives (The Marmot
Review) www.instituteofhealthequity.org/projects/fair-society-healthylives-the-marmot-review
A fresh start to tackling youth crime
(Independent Commission on Youth
Crime and Antisocial Behaviour) http://www.policefoundation.org.uk/uploads/holding/projects/fresh_start_to_t ackling_youth_crime.pdf
The Wisdom of Prevention (the New
Economics Foundation) www.neweconomics.org/publications/entry/the-wisdom-ofprevention

Maturity Matrix
Early Intervention Spend
(Summer 2012)

Slide sets available now on EIF website
Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network (Public Health England): www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/phe.pdf
Children Count Surveys (Social Rese a rch Unit) www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/dartington.pdf
Measuring Adverse Childhood Experiences (Blackburn with Darwen Council) www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/blackburnwithdarwen.pdf
With more EIF resources to come later in 2014…
Joint Strategic Needs Assessment: A springboard for action (Local Government Association) www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=812b6160-a890-481a-8c57-
5cb962bc04f3&groupId=10180
Child and Maternal Health Intelligence Network
(Public Health England) www.eif.org.uk/images/pdf/phe.pdf
www.chimat.org.uk
Health Needs Assessment A Practical Guide (health
Development Agency) www.nice.org.uk/media/150/35/Health_Needs_Assessment_A_Practical_Guide.pdf

Forthcoming: Report on learning from our 20 places to be launched later in 2014
Forthcoming: Report on Integrated Early Years models to be launched later in 2014
Commissioning early help: Using evidence informed practice to improve preventative and early help services (Research in Practice) ***£20*** www.local.gov.uk/c/document_library/get_file?uuid=812b6160-a890-481a-8c57-
5cb962bc04f3&groupId=10180
Available now: A growing library of case-studies sharing
learning from our 20 places. Including slide sets on
Hertfordshire, Islington, Nottingham, Solihull,
Staffordshire, Swindon, West Cheshire, Worcestershire http://www.eif.org.uk/places
Report of the Children and Young People’s Health
Outcomes Forum https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/216852/C
YP-report.pdf
Strategy Survival Guide (Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit) http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http:/www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/strategy/do wnloads/survivalguide/downloads/ssgv2.1_overview.pdf

Making an Early Intervention Business Case: What should it look like?
http://eif.org.uk/images//business/2bc-whatshoulditlooklike.pdf
Making an Early Intervention Business Case:
Checklist and recommendations for cost-benefit analysis http://eif.org.uk/images/business/4bc-checklistandrecsforcba.pdf
Making an Early Intervention Business Case: Evidence and resources http://eif.org.uk/images/business/3bc-evidenceandresources.pdf
Forthcoming: Social Investment: Using Social Impact
Bonds to Support Early Intervention (to be launched
March 2014)

• An online platform that will provide information about effective Early Intervention methods, in order to improve children’s wellbeing and save money.
• It will continually evolve and expand as new reviews are undertaken and new information is added.
• It will include tools and resources for improving Early Intervention in a local area.
• It will include information about programmes, systems and practice primarily aimed at commissioners.
If you would like to know more about the Guidebook or would like to be informed when it launches on the website, please email info@eif.org.uk

Complete:
• Domestic Violence
Ongoing:
• Information on evidence based Early Intervention programmes
Currently being considered:
• Social and emotional skills in school
• Edge of Care
• Team around the family
• Ante-natal programmes
• Supporting positive parent child interactions
• Supporting communities to take forward EI (including through coproduction and volunteering)

http://www.blueprintsprograms.com/ www.investinginchildren.eu
http://guidance.nice.org.uk
http://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/toolkit/ http://project-oracle.com/projects/all-projects/ http://www.parentingresearch.org.uk
http://education.gov.uk/commissioning-toolkit/Programme/Index http://www.c4eo.org.uk

Good impact evaluation design – basic principles (slide set) http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/evaluationdesign.pdf
The Magenta Book https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-magentabook
Better Evaluation Framework http://betterevaluation.org/plan
Evaluation: Measuring What Works http://www.nigms.nih.gov/Research/Evaluation/Pages/default.
aspx
Handbook on Impact Evaluation:
Quantitative Methods and Practices https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/2693
User Friendly Handbook for Project
Evaluation https://apps-spisu.sws.iastate.edu/resources/view/id/50

Chance UK
An Early Intervention programme based around mentoring for children aged 5-11 years with behavioural difficulties http://www.chanceuk.com/site/61/214.html
West Cheshire Integrated Early Support
Measuring the impact of the county wide Integrated
Early Support system for children from 0-18 in West
Cheshire http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/westcheshire.pdf
Vestia Community Trust
Evaluating the cashable savings achieved through services for families facing severe & multiple disadvantage in Worcestershire http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/worcestershire.pdf
Cost benefit analysis in Greater
Manchester http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/greatermanchester.pdf
Realising Ambition Project a UK wide programme of projects to help young people fulfil their potential and avoid the pathways into offending http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/realisingambition.pdf
Achievement for All 3As programme to improve outcomes in reading, writing and maths for children and young people eligible for the
Pupil Premium and those identified with Special
Educational Needs and Disabilities http://eif.org.uk/images/pdf/allthreeas.pdf