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Economic evaluation of young carers interventions

Economic evaluation of young carers interventions. CrossRoads Association and Princess Royal Trust for Carers. Applied Policy and Practice Research Unit. Agenda. Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) Aims of the project Methodology Key findings Using the findings. PERU. Who are we?.

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Economic evaluation of young carers interventions

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  1. Economic evaluation of young carers interventions CrossRoads Association and Princess Royal Trust for Carers Applied Policy and Practice Research Unit

  2. Agenda • Policy Evaluation and Research Unit (PERU) • Aims of the project • Methodology • Key findings • Using the findings

  3. PERU

  4. Who are we? • We are a multi-disciplinary team of evaluators, researchers, economists and ex-practitioners either based at or with links to Manchester Metropolitan University. • We work regularly with a number of partners from the private, voluntary and public sectors.

  5. What do we do? • We undertake evaluations and applied research projects for clients in the public and voluntary sectors. • We specialise in: • Impact evaluations • Economic evaluations • Evaluations of new policy initiatives • The sectors we do most work in are: • Criminal justice • Crime reduction • Legal advice • Young people’s services • Substance misuse

  6. Aims of the research

  7. Aim of the research • Assesses the economic impact of Young Carer’s interventions that are targeted on Young Carers affected by parental substance misuse and parental mental health problems. • Research has established that the implications of being a young carer include the risk of truancy, under achievement, isolation, mental and physical ill health, poverty and stress. • Risks particularly acute for young people affected by parental substance misuse (250,000 young people in the UK), parental alcohol misuse (1·3m young people) and parental mental health problems (4·2m parents).

  8. Methodology

  9. Three things we need to know The extra outcome achieved by the intervention compared with an alternative interventions We’ll estimate this by looking at published research (Rapid Evidence Assessment) The economic value of these outcomes Data on the values of different outcomes such as school exclusion already exists The extra cost of implementing the intervention compared with an alternative interventions Gather information from site visits

  10. Overview of the project This is where the bulk of the project resource will be focused

  11. Outcomes

  12. Rapid Evidence Assessment • The Government Social Research website describes a REA as: “ . . . a tool for getting on top of the available research evidence on a policy issue, as comprehensively as possible, within the constraints of a given timetable. . . . REAs provide a balanced assessment of what is already known about a policy or practice issue, by using systematic review methods to search and critically appraise the academic research literature and other sources of information.“ www.gsr.gov.uk/new_research/archive/rae.aspm

  13. Key stages in an REA • Agreed search strategy rigorously followed (eg defined search terms, list of databases and publications that will be searched) • Criteria set for data quality and only data that meets criteria is included in the synthesis • A REA report will provide overview of what evidence is saying. Sometimes data synthesis is undertaken if data being reviewed is quantitative and sufficient studies of an agreed methodological quality exist to make such an approach possible.

  14. REA outputs • The first search identified 1329 studies of which 81 were retrieved. • No papers met theoretical and quality criteria • The second search

  15. Key findings

  16. The model

  17. Costs What is covered? Key finding • Set-up costs eg: • Equipment (e.g. computers, activity equipment, mini-bus) • Staff recruitment costs • Running costs eg: • Staff (FTEs) • Volunteers (FTEs) • Steering group • Accommodation (rent) • The average cost of an intervention per capita is £2,500.

  18. Impact • We estimate that young carers’ projects have a 11 per cent impact on reducing truancy among the young carers they work with. • We estimate young carers’ projects have a 1 per cent impact on reducing the risk of the young carers with whom they work being taken into local authority care. • We estimate that young carers’ projects have a 2·5 per cent impact on reducing the risk of the young carers they work with from becoming teenage parents.

  19. Savings

  20. Key findings • For every pound invested in a Young Carers’ project the saving to society is £6.72. • A project working with 50 young carers a year would have to do one of the following to justify its funding (i.e. ‘break even’): • prevent truancy occurring or the taking into LAC of 3 young carers who would otherwise have been at risk; or • prevent one young person at risk of becoming a teenage parent from becoming a teenage parent.

  21. Using the findings

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