The Scottish Government

NAME OF PATHFINDER PROJECT: Bring Your Baby

Brief description

This project seeks to engage with pre school children and their parents/carers in areas of multiple deprivation, promoting access to cultural activity with the joint objectives of using culture as a tool to achieve a range of social aims, and examining the participation of disenfranchised communities in cultural planning and entitlement-setting.

Overall aim

Bring Your Baby seeks to use cultural participation to build capacity in families with young parents who may be experiencing challenging circumstances; build confidence in families, grow communication skills between parents and children and social/civic participation; and to help the participating authorities explore the practical use of cultural entitlements

Specific aims (list 4-6)

To promote learning & life skills (eg healthy lifestyles)

To facilitate engagement between individuals and public agencies

To promote parenting skills and family communication (eg bedtime stores with children)

To encourage users to take a primary role in shaping project content

To explore a model to inform local cultural planning

To develop a framework for delivering meaningful cultural entitlements

To feed results of project into the local Community Plan

Resources (inputs)

£36,912 from Scottish Executive

£5,832 in-kind from Renfrewshire Council

£1,500 from Inverclyde Council

£1,500 from East Renfrewshire Council

£1,500 from Renfrewshire Council

Project steering group, involving senior officers from each council

External evaluator

Support from Scottish Executive Cultural Policy Division

Freelance artists

Specialist toys and materials

Promotional materials

Advocacy workers from other public agencies

Outreach workers from Healthy Lifestyles project

Activities/services (outputs)

Need to fill this in re activities going to deliver - should include all activities and services proposed, not just ones that are used as indicators to measure

Indicators for key performance aspects (list 2-3 for each key aspect):

· Activity (output)

· Appoint steering group

· Produce promotional materials

· Appoint external evaluator

· Identify workers/agencies

· Identify participants

· Manage workshop & event programme

· Produce an interim and final evaluation report with recommendations for facilitating cultural entitlements

· Participation (output)

· Facilitate 31 weeks of cultural activities (186 sessions)

· Retain an average of 8 participants in six areas (48 people per week)

· Facilitate one summer cultural "awayday" in each community (6 awaydays)

· Facilitate 4 cultural visits in each community (24 visits)

· Satisfaction (outcome)

· Participants will report satisfaction with their input in to the planning process

· Cultural managers will report satisfaction with the learning about cultural entitlements

· Participants will report satisfaction with cultural activity sessions

· Participants will report satisfaction with Away Day

· Impact (outcome)

· Participants will report increased confidence in family communication skills

· Participants will report increased confidence in engaging with public agencies

· Participants will report increased frequency of reading with their child

· Participants will report increased knowledge of healthy lifestyles

· Managers will report increased knowledge of using cultural entitlements

· Value for money (output and outcome)

· Cost of promotional materials, per participant

· Cost of cultural visits, per participants

· Cost of each workshop session, per participant

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Data collected:

Baseline data

Collect Participants':

Level of satisfaction with input in to cultural planning

Level of confidence in family communication skills

Level of confidence in engaging with public agencies

Frequency of reading/ bedtime stories with children

Level of knowledge of healthy lifestyle

Collect Managers' level of knowledge of cultural entitlements

Interim report stage

Final report stage

Outcomes

Progress information (how is the project developing/did it develop, compared with the original plan?

Main learning points