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Contents
Acknowledgements 5
The Author 6
Abbreviations 7
Summary 9
1. Purpose of this report 11
2. Background to the Streamlined Assessment Project 13
2.1 Claiming Attendance Allowance 13
2.2 The Streamlined Assessment Project approach 15
3. The Streamlined Assessment Project areas 16
4. The Streamlined Assessment Project evaluation process 18
4.1 Scope 18
4.2 Methodology 19
4.2.1 Interviews 19
4.2.2 Checklists and Working Assumptions 19
4.2.3 Statistical analysis 19
5. Improving access 21
6. Building capacity 23
7. Systems and processes 25
7.1 Information capture 25
7.2 Information processing 26
8. Conclusions 30
8.1 Improving access (Chapter 5) 30
8.2 Building capacity (Chapter 6) 31
8.3 Systems and processes (Chapter 7) 31
8.4 Developing on the Streamlined Assessment Project 32
Appendix A. Summary of evaluation activities 33
Appendix B. Collated checklist results - all stakeholders 35
Table 3.1 Demographic features of the pilot areas 17
Table A.1 Evaluation activities 34
Table B.1 Perceived impact levels for the StAP approach 36