HVA What Works Building Evidence Project 2024
A Collaborative Exploratory Study of Data Definitions, Knowledge, Frameworks and Practices across Early Childhood Home Visiting Programmes
As part of the What Works Building Evidence Project 2024 and the development of an agreed approach to Home Visiting as outlined in First Five (DCEDIY, 2018), the Home Visiting Alliance (HVA) are engaged in a Collaborative Exploratory Study of Data Definitions, Knowledge, Frameworks and Practices across Ireland’s five evidenced based Early Childhood Home Visiting Programmes. The primary objective of this project was to build the capacity of the five member organisations of the HVA to share knowledge and experience about how they each work with data and evaluation at both programme and policy level with the future goal of developing an agreed common, national outcomes framework. The work included, identifying and incorporating what is currently working well for each programme and highlighting what needed improving or changing.
The establishment of a new National Home Visiting Programme in Tusla, publication of the Home Visiting review and National Vision for the Future (McGilloway et al, 2024) and the Economic Case for Home Visiting Cost with its average Benefit-to-Cost Ratio (BCR) of 1.6:1 (Doyle, 2024) in October 2024 mid-point during the process informed the discussions and findings.
