Scottish Government

The Independent Evaluation of 'Starting Well' Final Report

June 2004
Mhairi Mackenzie, Jon Shute, Kathryn Berzins, Ken Judge

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Contents

Acknowledgements
Executive Summary
Part 1. Background to Starting Well and its Evaluation
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Methods
Part 2. Outcomes from Starting Well
Assessing impact: The quasi-experimental study
Part 3. The Process Evaluation of Starting Well
3.1 Starting Well's initial Theory of Change
3.2 Case-studies: Project families and their health visitors
3.3 The implementation of the home visiting model
3.4 Delivering change at community and strategic levels
3.5 Revisiting Starting Well's Theory Change
Part 4. Conclusions
References
Appendices
I The Starting Well Independent Evaluation Team
II Publications and Presentations
III Key outcome instruments
IV Contextual comparisons of study areas