This website and the included resources were developed by the Better Start Bradford Innovation Hub (BSBIH) team, now the Family Inequalities Research for Prevention and Early Intervention (FaiR) team, part of the Born in Bradford research programme. The work was made possible by the Better Start Bradford programme, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund as part of the A Better Start programme (2015-2025), and the National Institute for Health and Care Research Yorkshire and Humber Applied Research Collaborative.
Special thanks go to all members of the BSBIH and BSB teams past and present, the BSB Commissioning Advisory Group and Partnership Board, the delivery teams of the BSB projects, and the BSBIH Community Research Advisory Group who helped shape this work.
Kelis and Sanah supported the development of visuals and performed final edits for the website.
Kate led the design and delivery of effectiveness evaluations across the programme and continues this work with a focus on the long term outcomes for families.
Alison is an experienced qualitative researcher and led and supported a number of qualitative evaluations across the programme.
Rachael led the evaluation work completed by Bradford Inequalities Research Unit (now part of FaIR) for the Reducing Inequalities in City programme.
Josie established the BSBIH in 2015 and led the planning and development of the programme’s evaluation approach and the Bradford Evaluation Framework.
Sara coordinated the monitoring and evaluation work across the programme. She was part of the team that worked with partners to develop the processes and tools contained within the framework.
Cara worked closely with Better Start Bradford and commissioned projects, leading on the delivery of monitoring reports and implementation evaluations.
We also acknowledge the valuable work of the Early Intervention Foundation (now Foundations) on evaluation and evidence ratings that was drawn on in the early development of our framework.