Angus Council will lead on the monitoring and evaluation of the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund.
Organisations receiving funding will be required to submit baseline data before the award is granted.
A standardised performance monitoring tool will be provided, enabling organisations to input numerical data, service user feedback, and workforce insights. While organisations can use their existing data collection tools or develop new ones, all information must be recorded in the designated Excel spreadsheet and questionnaire templates. This data should be submitted via a standardised form to a dedicated email inbox monthly (submission dates to be confirmed).
This new approach to performance reporting offers several key benefits. By collecting and analysing live data in real time, we can quickly identify trends, emerging needs, and areas for improvement. The standardised format ensures consistency, enabling a strategic needs assessment across all funded projects, while also reducing administrative burden by streamlining data submission. This approach strengthens accountability, supports evidence-based decision-making, and enhances our ability to demonstrate the fund’s impact effectively.
Performance reporting
The following KPI’s have been identified to show transformational change across Angus under the WFWF.
Here is an example of what organisations will be asked to report:
Children and families at the centre
Engaged in meaningful consultation and participation:
- Number of CYP involved in consultation and participation
- Number of adults/parents/caregivers involved in consultation and participation
- Number of families involved in consultation and participation
- Evidence of joint decision making in support plans
- Family consultation and participation embedded in systems and processes across sectors
Availability and access
Requests for assistance:
- Number of pregnant women requesting support
- Number of families with baby < 1 year requesting support
- Number of families with child(ren) < 3 years requesting support
- Method used to request assistance
- Timescale between request and response
Engagement, assessment and matching to services:
- Number of families declining support and reason why
- Number of families engaged with assessment
- Analysis of need
- Numbers of families matched to services
- Method used to communicate and match family with service
Service delivery:
- Number of services supporting a family
- Types of support provided to a family
- Analysis of need and service delivery
- Number of families in need of support out with “9 to 5” hours
- Number of families completing programmes of support
Improved outcomes:
- Number of families reporting improved outcomes
Specific outcome measures for families:
- Family well-being is strengthened
- families increase resilience optimism autonomy and ability to meet their own needs
- increase confidence and self-esteem in children and parents
- parents achieve specific skills
- family has a sense of meaning and purpose
- family can establish and maintain healthy nurturing relationships with each other and extended support network
- families have improved engagement in community activities
- children's likelihood of remaining with family is increased
- a focus of a whole family approach to problem solving
Family feedback (learning loop):
- Qualitative feedback from CYPF – an evaluation of service provision
- Qualitative feedback from workforce of service providers
Whole System Approach (WSA) and joined up support
- Whole systems approach is being used in key areas to manage change and strategy
- Evidence of collaboration across sectors
- Evidence of system change
- Long term impact
Workforce and culture
- Improved awareness of Whole Family wellbeing approach across the workforce
- More practitioners and agencies are “thinking family”
- Trauma Responsive Practices are embedded in practice
- Support for service providers who wish to apply for WFW funding
- Commissioning of services to meet the needs of the community
- Grant Funding awards are successful