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8 results foundAuthor: Ahmad, Naureen Title: Evaluation of the Cashback for Communities 'Schools of Football' Programme Summary: In 2002 the Proceeds of Crime Act ( POCA) was passed, whereby monies acquired by criminal activity could be seized by the state. The Act allowed the government to take the money and any assets that had been gained by illegal means such as drug trafficking, theft and fraud etc. In June 2007 Ministers announced that they would use the funds recovered from criminals under the Proceeds of Crime Act in a positive way by launching CashBack for Communities, a programme providing a range of positive activities for young people. The Scottish Government is committed to providing opportunities to all young people in Scotland, which it is hoped will enable them to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens. The 'CashBack for Communities' programme has been running since 2008. The aim of the 'CashBack for Communities' programme is to use the proceeds of crime to expand young people's horizons and increase the opportunities they have to develop their interests and skills in an enjoyable, fulfilling and supported way. The Government's intention is to support an expanded range of activities for young people that helps their long-term personal and physical development. The activities provided are, where possible, open to all young people, but resources are focussed in those communities which are at most risk of anti-social behaviour and crime. The activities seek to increase the levels of participation in diversionary activities which will aim to help increase the positive long-term outcomes for those who take part. This report presents the findings of an evaluation of the Schools of Football pilot programme. The aims of the SoF, which runs in areas of high deprivation, is to improve attendance, attainment and discipline through providing daily football coaching to young people who are most likely to benefit from participating. Details: Edinburgh: Scottish Government Social Research, 2010. 55p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 17, 2010 at: Year: 2010 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 120542 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Sports |
Author: Stephen, Christine Title: Evaluating Crannog Summary: The Crannog service is intended to offer support to 12-16 year olds who are experiencing repeated exclusion from school or are at risk of repeated exclusion or who are at risk of being referred to a residential school. This document reports on an external evaluation by Stirling University, drawing on quantitative evidence about the service, the outcomes recorded and the costs incurred; the perspectives of other professionals who are involved with the young people or the commissioning of the service; the ways in which young people and their families experience Crannog. Details: Stirling, UK: University of Stirling, Institute of Education, 2003. 88p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 2, 2012 at: http://www.aberlour.org.uk/evaluatingcrannog.aspx Year: 2003 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.aberlour.org.uk/evaluatingcrannog.aspx Shelf Number: 124339 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Expulsion from SchoolJuveniles, Anti-Social BehaviorSchool Discipline |
Author: Great Britain. Positive Futures Team, Home Office Title: Positive Futures: impact report: End of season review Summary: Positive Futures is a national sports-based social inclusion programme, managed up to the end of March 2006 from within the Home Office Drug Strategy Directorate. It is currently delivered through 115 local partnership projects located throughout England and Wales. This is the third impact report produced by Positive Futures. It provides details of the programme’s progress in the final year of its three-year strategy, and looks at what the future holds as Positive Futures moves into its next phase of development. This report looks at Positive Futures’ success in meeting the commitments set out in the strategy document before addressing the delivery of programmes and associated achievements of the young people involved. Following this, it outlines the wider work undertaken to build an infrastructure for the ongoing delivery of sportsbased social inclusion work. Finally, as the third phase of the programme’s development comes to a close, the report looks at the new opportunities presented as Positive Futures moves into its next phase of development. Details: London: Treatment and Young People Drugs Unit, Positive Futures Team, Home Office, 2006. 48p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 22, 2012 at http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6207/1/pf-impact-report%3Fview%3DBinary Year: 2006 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6207/1/pf-impact-report%3Fview%3DBinary Shelf Number: 126088 Keywords: Antisocial Behavior, Juveniles (U.K.)At-Risk Youth (U.K.)Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Evaluative StudiesSports |
Author: Johnston, Les Title: Snakes & Ladders: Young People, Transitions and Social Exclusion Summary: The research project (Young people, transitions and social exclusion) on which this report is based aimed to: • explore the causes, extent and consequences of socioeconomic exclusion for a diverse sample of young people in one particularly disadvantaged locality; • examine and understand the range of ‘mainstream’ and ‘diverse’ careers that young people develop in this context; • suggest what policy and practice interventions might ‘work’ in terms of securing ‘inclusive’ careers for disadvantaged youth and to explore the extent to which these can be extended further to other groups of young people. The project, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation under their Young People Programme, began in October 1999 and concluded in March 2000. The first chapter discusses the research site and the rationale for its selection, outlines the theoretical and policy context of the study and describes the project’s design and methodology. Chapter 2 looks at six cameos of individuals drawn from the larger sample. The stories revealed in these cameos exemplify the events, problems and processes typically experienced by young people as they grow up in Willowdene. In Chapter 3 we draw on these cameos – and, where appropriate, on data from interviews with other young people – to identify the key analytical themes which aid the understanding of youth transitions in a context of social exclusion. Finally, in Chapter 4 we summarise the main findings of the research and consider some of its policy implications. Details: York, UK: The Policy Press and the Joseph Rountree Foundation, 2000. 44p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 27, 2012 at: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/jr090-young-people-exclusion.pdf Year: 2000 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/jr090-young-people-exclusion.pdf Shelf Number: 126112 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Disadvantaged YouthSocial Exclusion |
Author: Sport England Title: Positive Futures: A Review of Impact and Good Practice - Individual Project Reports Summary: In September 2001 Leisure Futures was commissioned by Sport England to carry out a “Review of impact and good practice” on a range of revenue funded schemes included in two of its main ‘branded’ programmes - Active Communities and Positive Futures. The aim of the research was to: Carry out a ‘short and sharp’ review of the sporting and broader social impacts of the Active Communities and Positive Futures projects that will provide evidence of what has been achieved to date, identify good practice, and inform and help to shape future investment decisions in these and related programmes. The more specific objectives of the research were: To provide a report of achievement for each project against its stated objectives relating these as far as possible to Sport England’s evaluation framework and key indicators; Based on the evidence available, identify good practice and make practical recommendations on how this can be extended more widely to both existing and future projects; To provide a summary report that identifies achievements across the programmes generally using a thematic issues based approach; and To learn lessons and make recommendations that will help to shape Sport England’s longer-term approaches to evaluation and impact assessment. Details: London: Sport England, 2002. 69p. Source: Library Resource: Available at Don M. Gottfredson Library of Criminal Justice. Year: 2002 Country: United Kingdom URL: Shelf Number: 126169 Keywords: Antisocial Behavior, Juveniles (U.K.)At-Risk Youth (U.K.)Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Evaluative StudiesSports |
Author: Clinks Title: Going for Gold: Developing Effective Services for Young Adults Throughout the Criminal Justice Process Summary: This guide sets out how to develop services for young adults throughout the criminal justice process. It is based on a set of guiding principles and rules of engagement which can be applied flexibly within different local contexts. Demographics, offender profiles, types of crime, resources and available services will vary from place to place. But while the detail of how the service is delivered can change, the approach remains consistent: evidence-based, holistic, supportive and voluntary. Some young adults, for a variety of reasons, experience difficulties in making the transition from youth to adulthood. Most young adults have supportive families, positive experiences of education and good health to help them to successfully navigate the journey to independence. However, for those youngsters who have had troubled lives characterised by fragile or damaging relationships, unstable families, poor health, poverty or the experience of violence and abuse, the journey is difficult. Young adults may experience significant changes in the way that services are delivered once they reach the age of 18, because of the different ways that youth and adult services are delivered. They may experience a sudden loss of contact with workers with whom they have built up relationships and will have to engage differently with services. This can be tricky but there is a way of minimising the potential for disruption and securing successful transitions. This resource has a simple aim; to aid the development of services that support this transition. It seeks to persuade commissioners that an approach which recognises young adults as a specific group will achieve better outcomes and lower costs. It provides an overview of why such an approach is necessary, highlighting the benefits of multi-agency collaboration, and gives a step by step guide to how such an approach can be developed. Importantly, the guide offers suggestions as to how T2A services can be introduced with different levels of resources. This resource is targeted at senior managers and local commissioners from organisations such as Local Authorities, Youth Offending Services, Probation Trusts, Prisons, Health and Wellbeing Boards, and the offices of police and crime commissioners. This resource is based on the success of three T2A pilots, funded by the Barrow Cadbury Trust, which have operated since 2009 in London, Birmingham and West Mercia. The pilots have been subject to a range of indepth evaluation and scrutiny, with detailed learning available to aid replication of the approaches. This resource focuses on a particular period of a young person’s life, because it is a time when the risk of offending is highest and when support changes profoundly. The transfer from the youth justice system to the adult offender management system is potentially destabilising, but the T2A pilots have shown this transition can be managed smoothly. Young people who are trying to negotiate their way to independence can be supported more effectively if senior managers and commissioners ensure that the gaps between youth and adult services are minimised. Details: London: Clinks, 2012. 42p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed December 21, 2012 at http://www.clinks.org/assets/files/PDFs/Going%20for%20gold%20guide%20-%20final.pdf Year: 2012 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.clinks.org/assets/files/PDFs/Going%20for%20gold%20guide%20-%20final.pdf Shelf Number: 127254 Keywords: At-risk YouthDelinquency Prevention (U.K.)Social Services |
Author: Children's Rights Director for England Title: Keeping Out of Trouble: Children’s views reported by the Children’s Rights Director for England Summary: For this report we asked children and young people for their views and experience about what can keep a child or young person from getting into trouble with the law. We asked both children and young people who had been in trouble with the law and those that had not. This report therefore gives the children’s view of what makes the difference for a child. We asked for the views of children and young people in two very different situations. We asked children and young people in care, and we also asked young people living in two different secure training centres. We asked the children and young people in care for their views at a big consultation event we held in the north of England. We invited children from different local authorities across the country, and did not just choose children we already knew or who were already in local participation groups or Children in Care Councils. We asked the children for their views in a series of discussion groups. At the same event, we ran other discussion groups to ask children and young people for their views on two other subjects for other reports. These were running away and physical restraint. Altogether we held nine discussion groups on the subject of keeping out of trouble. Each group we ran was led by a member of the Office of the Children’s Rights Director, and another member of our team took notes of the views the children gave. Parents, carers, staff members and other adults who had brought children and young people to our discussion groups were not with the children during the discussions, so that the children could freely talk about their views. We gave children a shopping token to thank them for taking part in our discussions, and they were also able to take part in activities for young people at the activity centre where we held all our nine discussion groups. At that centre, we also set up some electronic screens on which children could enter more views while they were waiting for our groups, or waiting to join activities, or during the lunch break. The answers typed on to those screens have been used in this report, alongside what was said in our discussion groups. As always in children’s discussion groups we run, we asked open questions for discussion, but did not suggest any answers. We told the children and young people that they did not have to agree on any ‘group views’, but could give different views and could disagree without having to argue for their views against anyone else. We would write down all their different views. We used a secure web survey to ask young people at the two secure training centres for their views on keeping out of trouble. As always with our web surveys, we gave young people secure login details and passwords, so they could complete the surveys themselves. This report contains, as far as we could note them down, all the views given by the children and young people in the web survey and discussion groups, not our own views. We have not added our comments. We have not left out any views we might disagree with, or which the government, councils, professionals or research people might disagree with. Where we have used a direct quote from what a child or young person said, this is either something that summarises well what others had said as well, or something that was a clear way of putting a different idea from what others had said. Details: Manchester, UK: Ofsted, 2013. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed May 1, 2013 at: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/keeping-out-of-trouble Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/resources/keeping-out-of-trouble Shelf Number: 128505 Keywords: Delinquency Prevention (U.K.)Juvenile Delinquency |
Author: Pritchard, David Title: Streetchance: Understanding the role StreetChance can play in reducing youth crime and anti-social behaviour Summary: The StreetChance programme is a partnership between the Cricket Foundation and Barclays Spaces for Sports which runs weekly cricket sessions for young people in some of the most deprived areas of the UK. The sessions are often supplemented by informal education classes that address topics such as gangs, knife crime and drug abuse, delivered by partner charities and individuals with experiences relevant to these issues. In some areas representatives of the local police force participate in the sessions. To date, more than 38,000 children and young people have participated in StreetChance projects. This paper discusses the potential benefits of StreetChance in the three outcome areas that are related to StreetChance's theory of change-namely its impact on community cohesion, crime and anti-social behaviour, and health. As well as reporting on surveys of participants, it also includes recommendations for programme design. Details: London: New Philanthropy Capital, 2014. 21p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 15, 2014 at: http://www.thinknpc.org/publications/streetchance/ Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.thinknpc.org/publications/streetchance/ Shelf Number: 133318 Keywords: Anti-Social BehaviorAt-Risk YouthDelinquency Prevention (U.K.)Sports |