The Barrow Cadbury Trust, which convenes and funds the work of the T2A Alliance, would like to invite applications for the delivery of a major research project to evaluate a new initiative due to start later in 2013: The T2A Pathway.

T2A Pathway

In early summer 2013, Barrow Cadbury Trust intends to select and fund a network of projects operating across the T2A Pathway to demonstrate how services can be developed locally and to illustrate how, in principle, a ‘whole pathway approach’ could be commissioned in a given locality.

It is intended that these projects will operate across England and Wales, and will start in late 2013, running for up to three years. These projects will be led by voluntary sector organisations that already have a track record or an existing project to build on, and will be delivered in partnership with statutory agencies. There are likely to be 6 projects.

T2A Pathway Evaluation

An evaluation of the T2A Pathway will be formative and summative in nature, and will begin before the Pathway projects go live and run until after the projects end. The evaluation will assist with establishing base line data at each project site, and provide practical assistance to the projects to ensure that data are collected correctly and consistently. Each Pathway project is likely to be quite different, and operating at different points in the criminal justice process. It is not intended that the evaluation will be a comparison between the projects, rather an assessment of each project’s impact at its particular stage in the process and an exploration of commonalities.

1. The evaluation is subject to a maximum budget of £120,000;
2. The research will begin in July 2013, and complete no later than early 2017;
3. The research will draw data from the T2A Pathway projects;
4. The T2A Pathway projects are time limited to up to three years; and
5. The T2A Pathway projects are likely to be relatively small in scope, meaning that the project is unlikely to draw data from a large numbers of service users.

For organisations interested in tendering for the research, a supporting document outlining the detail of the T2A Pathway project is available on request.

Contact and timetable

Applications should be submitted electronically in Word format by 5pm on Monday 20^th May 2013 to Max Rutherford, Criminal Justice Programme Manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust, on[email protected]

• The tendering process will begin on Tuesday 30^th April 2013.
• All applications for the evaluation must be received by 5pm on Monday 20^th May 2013.
• A shortlist of three applicants will be selected and notified on Friday 24^th May 2013
• These applicants will be interviewed on Wednesday 29^th May 2013
• The chosen applicant will be offered the contract on Friday 31^st May 2013
• The evaluation process will start in July 2013.

N.B. The selected applicant will be asked to present the evaluation research methodology at T2A Alliance members’ meeting on Monday 3^rd June 2013

If you have any questions about the project or the tendering process, please contact Max Rutherford, Criminal Justice Programme Manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust, at [email protected] or 020 7632 9066. You can find more information about Barrow Cadbury Trust at www.barrowcadbury.org.uk and about T2A at www.t2a.org.uk