Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start Economic Study.

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The Big Lottery Fund ("BIG") is seeking an organisation to provide an economic study in respect of its Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start Programme.The Fulfilling Lives: A Better Start Programme is a funding initiative of up to GBP 165m, investing in a minimum of 3 and a maximum of 5 geographic areas in England where each geographic area runs a variety of programmes and approaches that are shown to improve social and emotional development and must cover such interventions as language development; diet and nutrition of babies and children from pregnancy to three years of age.The Fund wishes to commission a study of the savings that might accrue from investing in prevention in pregnancy and early life. The successful provider will be required to:— to provide a research of the savings ascribed to prevention in pregnancy and the first 3 years of life that might accrue to the public purse on (i) a 5-year spending cycle and (ii) a longer timescale for the benefits of the Fund's grant holders.— to support A Better Start grant holders by equipping them with the tools and understanding to assess the cost effectiveness of their interventions under the Programme.