Challenges for the Evaluation of the P.I.P.P.I. - Programme of Intervention for Prevention of Institutionalisation: between Partecipative and Experimental Pathways

Evaluation is constantly requested by governments and decision-makers, to prove that social policies and actions undertaken are effective in responding to problems. Also programmes contrasting child neglect are involved in such request to guarantee that children enjoy their childhood and ensure access to quality service. This paper focuses on an Italian evaluation experience of one such programme named the P.I.P.P.I. (Programme of Intervention for Prevention of Institutionalisation), the outcome of a collaboration between the University of Padua and the Italian Ministry of Welfare. The paper questions and challenges the experimental designs normally used for these evaluation purposes, highlighting how knowledge of effective treatments is far from the practices delivered. The study proposes an innovative evaluation path in which the participative evaluation, where the professionals build their own knowledge through an evaluation in the field, coexists with the choice of matching as a (quasi) experimental evaluation, responding to the Government\u2019s request for effective investments

P.I.P.P.I.: What has changed? How and why? The empirical evidence

This paper provides a summary of the results of the P.I.P.P.I. Program in achieving the prefixed goals on the final, intermediate and proximal outcome variables, regarding children\u2019s development, the positive exercise of parental competences and the effective action of services respectively. Therefore, the main purpose is to describe the impact of the program on the overall well-being of children and families in relation to the processes implemented. This is possible thanks to the wealth of information gathered by professionals through the tools provided for the analysis, design and monitoring activities in the work with families

Dentro la famiglia: le condizioni di vita dei bambini

On the basis of a local household survey, this paper examines the economic and social conditions of families with children under fifteen. The analysis refers to a particular area, the province of Modena, one of the richest in Italy, with high female occupation rates and a good deal of public child care services. We study child care services available outside the family and the costs afforded by parents. We also analyze some critical areas in childcare and discuss their links with the economic conditions of the families.living condition of children; poverty; local survey

Challenges for the Evaluation of the P.I.P.P.I. - Programme of Intervention for Prevention of Institutionalisation: between Partecipative and Experimental Pathways

Evaluation is constantly requested by governments and decisionmakers, to prove that social policies and actions undertaken are effective in responding to problems. Also, programmes contrasting child neglect are involved in such request to guarantee that children enjoy their childhood and ensure access to quality service. This paper focuses on an Italian evaluation experience of such a programme, thanks to the collaboration between University of Padua and Italian Ministry of Welfare. It is called P.I.P.P.I. - Programme of Intervention for Prevention of Institutionalisation. The paper questioned and challenged the experimental designs normally used for these evaluation purposes, highlighting how knowledge of effective treatments is far from the practices delivered. The study purposes an innovative evaluation path, intertwining the participative evaluation where the professionals build their own knowledge through an evaluation in the field, with the choice of matching as (quasi) experimental evaluation, responding to the Government’s request of effective investments

Territorial Poverty Analysis: a Comparison of Different Approach

La scelta di una linea di povert\ue0, cio\ue8 di una soglia (di spesa o reddito) che discrimini le famiglie in povere e non povere costituisce una scelta arbitraria. Usualmente viene utilizzata una soglia pari alla spesa media pro-capite calcolata a livello nazionale. Tale metodologia \ue8 stata oggetto pi\uf9 volte di critiche, in quanto la determinazione di una soglia nazionale non consente di cogliere particolari evidenze di carattere territoriale. In questo lavoro vengono utilizzate linee di povert\ue0 distinte per ripartizione geografica, calcolate sulla base delle spese mensili familiari dell\u2019Indagine sui consumi. L\u2019analisi che ne consegue pur presentando livelli diversi dei principali indicatori di povert\ue0, mostra profili di povert\ue0 analoghi a quelli che emergono dalla tradizionale analisi

Efficacia selettiva dell’Ise nell’erogazione di prestazioni sociali agevolate nella provincia di Modena

analisi degli effetti dell'applicazione dell'Isee alle politiche locali in provincia id Moden

I risultati di P.I.P.P.I. e il loro impatto nelle politiche regionali e locali

This paper provides a summary of the results of the P.I.P.P.I. program in 4 editions of the program (2013-2017) that was implemented in 109 local authorities with 1.812 children and their 1.537families.The analysis refers to the achievement of the prefixed goals on the final, intermediate and proximal outcome variables, regarding children’s development, the parental response to child’s needs and the action of services. The paper examines the information gathered by professionals through the tools provided for the analysis, design and monitoring activities in the work with families. With regards to the context where the program is implemented in, the case of the Region Lombardia is shown as an example of integrating the program in the regional governance.Questo articolo riporta una sintesi dei risultati del programma P.I.P.P.I. nelle 4 edizioni del programma che vanno dal 2013 al 2017 a cui hanno partecipato 109 AT lavorando con 1.812 bambini appartenenti a 1.537 nuclei familiari. L’analisi si riferisce al raggiungimento degli obiettivi prefissati rispetto alle variabili di esito finali, intermedie e prossimali, che riguardano lo sviluppo dei bambini, la risposta ai bisogni dei bambini da parte dei genitori e un’azione efficace dei servizi. Vengono prese in esame le informazioni raccolte dagli operatori attraverso gli strumenti offerti dal Programma nelle attività di analisi, progettazione e monitoraggio del lavoro con le famiglie. In riferimento ai contesti in cui si realizza il programma, si propone il caso della Lombardia come esempio di integrazione del programma nel proprio sistema di governance

Gravitational Waves From Known Pulsars: Results From The Initial Detector Era

We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generation of interferometric gravitational wave detectors LIGO (Laser Interferometric Gravitational-wave Observatory) and Virgo. We do not see evidence for gravitational wave emission from any of the targeted sources but produce upper limits on the emission amplitude. We highlight the results from seven young pulsars with large spin-down luminosities. We reach within a factor of five of the canonical spin-down limit for all seven of these, whilst for the Crab and Vela pulsars we further surpass their spin-down limits. We present new or updated limits for 172 other pulsars (including both young and millisecond pulsars). Now that the detectors are undergoing major upgrades, and, for completeness, we bring together all of the most up-to-date results from all pulsars searched for during the operations of the first-generation LIGO, Virgo and GEO600 detectors. This gives a total of 195 pulsars including the most recent results described in this paper.United States National Science FoundationScience and Technology Facilities Council of the United KingdomMax-Planck-SocietyState of Niedersachsen/GermanyAustralian Research CouncilInternational Science Linkages program of the Commonwealth of AustraliaCouncil of Scientific and Industrial Research of IndiaIstituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare of ItalySpanish Ministerio de Economia y CompetitividadConselleria d'Economia Hisenda i Innovacio of the Govern de les Illes BalearsNetherlands Organisation for Scientific ResearchPolish Ministry of Science and Higher EducationFOCUS Programme of Foundation for Polish ScienceRoyal SocietyScottish Funding CouncilScottish Universities Physics AllianceNational Aeronautics and Space AdministrationOTKA of HungaryLyon Institute of Origins (LIO)National Research Foundation of KoreaIndustry CanadaProvince of Ontario through the Ministry of Economic Development and InnovationNational Science and Engineering Research Council CanadaCarnegie TrustLeverhulme TrustDavid and Lucile Packard FoundationResearch CorporationAlfred P. Sloan FoundationAstronom