The Nesta and PEDAL teams aligned on what elements of the PwB programme would be fixed for the next phase of delivery, and what elements were flexible to potentially be changed in response to feedback.
Activities undertaken in this project were:
- recruiting three local authorities (Derby city, Shropshire, and Cumberland) to recruit parents and facilitators and deliver the programme
- running workshops and interviews with our local authority partners, parents, and practitioners to gather feedback on the programme and feed into the development of the digital platform
- recruiting parents and facilitators and testing recruitment strategies and channels to see what worked best to reach our target parents
- partnering with Synergy Learning to develop a new digital platform for PwB to develop increased capabilities, moving from Moodle Cloud to Moodle Workplace (learn more below)
- updating the previous facilitator training manual and training sessions
- making improvements and updates to the online book-sharing skills sessions completed by parents
- delivering PwB in three local authorities across two delivery cycles, collecting data on parent demographics and engagement. We initially aimed to deliver the programme to at least 50 parents.
- Bringing together previously disjointed programme elements, including facilitator materials, access to ‘skills sessions’, uploading videos, scheduling calls, and completing outcome measures.
- Designing the website in Playtime with Books branding.
- Allowing different local authorities to login to different ‘versions’ of the site to ensure data confidentiality.
- Structuring the parent experience in a sequential manner to guide them through skills sessions and check in calls in programmatic order.
We have now completed our first cycle of delivery and summarise our key findings from cycle one in the following chapters. Our overall findings from both cycles of delivery will be shared in spring 2025.
