Evaluating the Essex Data Programme: Data Collection and Data Management Plan

The report sets out the framework for the evaluation of the Essex Data Programme, delivered by Essex County Council and partners organisations. The Essex Data (ED) Programme is a pilot project seeking to improve early intervention by safely sharing and matching county level data from different partners to provide insights to policy makers and front-line support staff. The ED Programme seeks to pilot a way of safely sharing and matching partner data to enable its use to predict risk and provide insight to support a shift to early intervention. Issue-based prototypes to address system-wide challenging issues make up the pilot. The report includes information on the project's objectives, stakeholders that will be involved, outlines the evaluation logic model, and presents the evaluation delivery timeline and milestones. It also defines the project's outcomes, and key success indicators that will be measured throughout the programme as well as a data management plan on how this information needs to be handled, stored, transferred etc.