Data Analysis to understand NSPCC Service Reach

Project summary

The NSPCC has five years’ data from surveys of service providers and wishes to identify insights from these data to shape future service delivery and impact measurement.

How will this project benefit the organisation?  

This analysis should lead to further insights and potential changes to service design, delivery and impact reporting; for example:

• Proposals on how to improve assumptions of reach based on the different organisations NSPCC work with.
• Extending the work to other scaled services.
• Validating assumptions with as many sites as possible.
• Identifying options for calculating reach of scale.
• Identifying options for analysis and reporting in future.

The ultimate purpose of this project is to enable the NSPCC to scale its services and reach more beneficiaries. Ensuring the NSPCC’s work and activities reach every corner of the UK and Channel Islands will help make the biggest impact on the lives of children. From their community hubs the NSPCC run a number of services that are designed to support children and young people’s mental health and overall recovery from abuse, or to help prevent it from happening in the first place.

Project description

The NSPCC works with partner organisations to train and support them to deliver evidence based services for children. This enables the NSPCC to take services they develop and evaluate them at scale, where the NSPCC on its own is limited by its size and footprint.

Over the last five years the NSPCC has been gathering data wherever possible from these partner organisations. Their aim is to understand the numbers of children and adults they have reached with an NSPCC service. They now want to analyse this data to help understand the reach of their scale up work, and to develop recommendations for how to measure reach in future.

Some initial analysis has been undertaken, but further work now needs to be done:

Analyse the data prepared to date, to consider context of time and service, missing data and its consequences, and nuances of reporting. 

There is a wireframe which helps bring together the data collected so far to enable analysis. However, this now needs to be reviewed to understand what the data is actually showing and what conclusions can be drawn from it. This will be based on the context for each service, time period, impact of COVID, delivery approaches, reporting approaches, what data is missing and what this means for our assumptions etc. 

Apply

If you feel you can offer your assistance please complete the application form by Wednesday 13 December 2023. 

The OR Society fully supports equal opportunities.

Location

Remote

Time commitment

The initial review of the available data and analysis could require 5-10 days of volunteer support. This may suit a pair of volunteers, working together, or a small team. If this initial work is undertaken by a team there is the opportunity to extend the support to provide further recommendations and tools for the NSPCC to implement.

The volunteers will need to be skilled in wrangling large sets of data in order to clean and prepare them for analysis. The currently available date are in Excel.

Desired start date

To be agreed

Desired end date

To be agreed

About the organisation

For further information about the NSPCC please visit https://www.nspcc.org.uk/ 

About Pro Bono OR

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