Reviews

Specific examples of research and evaluation programmes currently being undertaken by NDTi include:

• A two year qualitative research programme (2008-2010) as part of the South East Regional Initiative on independent living and older people with high support needs
   
• An independent evaluation of the Changing Ageing Partnership (CAP) of Northern Ireland, running from April 2009 until October 2011. Funded by Atlantic Philanthropies, this partnership involves Age Concern NI, the Institute of Governance at Queens University, Help the Aged, the Workers Educational Authority, and the NI network of older people’s forums and groups, known as the Age Sector Platform. The evaluation has 3 primary aims: to identify what relevant changes have occurred as a result of CAP; to establish whether these changes have occurred as expected; and to develop a shared understanding of what these changes mean for the future
   
• Ongoing evaluation of the Dorset POPP programme: following a highly successful two year pilot, Dorset partners are continuing their work on strengthening communities and older people’s leadership in order to promote healthy ageing and responsive public services. We are working alongside this partnership to continue to map and evaluation what’s working for different older people and partner organisations in enabling a strategic shift towards early intervention and prevention across the whole system of services and support
   
• Evaluation of telecare developments in Hampshire in order to inform future provision and wider access for a diverse population of people who need support to go about their everyday lives
   
• Designing an evaluation framework to support the ongoing development of wellbeing activities and services across Hampshire
   
• Research commissioned by Housing 21 to engage a range of stakeholders currently living in extra care housing schemes in Oldham and West Sussex to capture their current understanding of personal budgets and wider options for support; and to gather intelligence on how specialist housing services are changing in the two localities to deliver the wider personalisation agenda
   
• Testing and evaluating different strategies for achieving PSA 16 indicator on inclusion through a Department of Health grant on housing rights and community inclusion for adults with learning disabilities
   
• Day services reviews
   
• Using the Inclusion Web to evaluate whether people’s lives are changing and improving as a result of the different kinds of support they are accessing, and in particular from developing organisational and staff focus on community inclusion as the desired outcome
   
• An evaluation of the 21 Pathfinder sites, that are delivering new approaches to short breaks for disabled children and their families. An interim report has been published on the Department for Education website (DoE Interim Report) and the final report is currently with the Government awaiting clearance for publication.