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2 results foundAuthor: St. Giles Trust Title: The Evaluation of St Giles Trust's SOS Project Summary: St Giles Trust's SOS Project trains and employs reformed ex-offenders as caseworkers, who provide practical and psychological support to their clients - primarily other ex-offenders, but also those at risk of offending - to help them to avoid offending and reintegrate themselves into society. This is a pioneering model for the delivery of such services and the limited results of this paper indicate this model could have an impact if scaled and supported appropriately. This paper provides an account of a mixed-methods evaluation of the SOS Project, carried out by The Social Innovation Partnership (TSIP) and its associates, whose dual-purpose was to analyse the SOS Project's impact and optimise its implementation. The key findings of this report are: - The caseworkers themselves are the biggest strength of the SOS Project. Their commitment, willingness to challenge their clients, and ability to address their attitudes and behaviours whilst still providing support are integral to the SOS Project's work. Clients most frequently mentioned support from SOS workers and the information, advice and guidance as the most valuable parts of the SOS Project. - The SOS Project and St Giles Trust in general are clearly (based on case file reviews, interviews, and partner discussions) receiving referrals from multiple routes, and taking on clients who are difficult or not motivated to reform. This dynamic and 'hard-to-measure' variable means the reconviction analysis conducted in this study needs to be considered in this context. - The SOS Project is well-aligned with the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) understanding of best practice - it takes a holistic approach that principally targets four of NOM'’ reoffending risk factors – this is an important foundation that St Giles Trust are targeting well. With more structure, all nine outcomes could be strongly targeted. - According to client interviews and caseworkers' self-reported outcomes, the SOS Project shows signs of positive impact. The feedback was overwhelmingly positive and case file analysis indicates good work. - A reconviction analysis showed that the reoffending rates of SOS clients were not significantly different from what would be predicted had no intervention taken place. However, due to unavoidable issues with data, these results may not accurately reflect the SOS Project's impact. Further work is recommended. - In any case, data collection needs to be improved in order to fully and accurately capture the SOS Project's impact. St Giles Trust could capture its data better with dedicated administrative support - The process of delivering this evaluation has illustrated that projects that emerge organically and subject to a wide range of funder requirements like the SOS Project (evolved over 6 years) i.e. take on a variety/difficult of clients, use multiple referral routes, and use flexible interventions need to carefully consider the evaluation methodologies and desired outcomes that they select to assess their work. Details: London: St. Giles Trust, 2013. 64p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 3, 2018 at: https://www.stgilestrust.org.uk/misc/Evaluation%20into%20SOS%20Gangs%20project%20full%20report.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.stgilestrust.org.uk/misc/Evaluation%20into%20SOS%20Gangs%20project%20full%20report.pdf Shelf Number: 151748 Keywords: CaseworkersEx-OffendersMentoringOffender SupervisionPeer AdvisorsRecidivismReoffending |
Author: Hudek, Jo Title: Evaluation of the County Lines Pilot Project Summary: The County Lines Demonstration Pilot Project was funded by the Home Office to test out what might enable vulnerable children to move away from involvement in county lines drug distribution networks. It began in September 2017, with the objectives of trialling a range of interventions delivered by St Giles Trust and its partner Missing People, that had the potential to: - reduce the number of children involved in county lines activity; - improve the lifestyles and life chances of those who exit county lines activity, to reduce their likelihood of becoming re-engaged with gangs and crime; understand how a range of interventions can work effectively together to help children affected by county lines activity; - develop a model that effectively tackles the issue of child involvement and exploitation in county lines activity, and - facilitate enhanced intelligence and partnership working across agencies involved in crime, social services, safeguarding, health and other key agencies relevant to children involved in county lines activity. This independent evaluation, carried out by JH Consulting, assesses the extent to which the interventions have contributed to achieving these objectives - for children, families and statutory services; the relative effectiveness of the interventions and any interactions between them, and the key learning points to take forward in service development for this highly vulnerable group. The evaluation is linked to wider scoping research that draws together key learning from across over 20 different areas in England and Wales, identifying the key issues for vulnerable children involved in county lines, as well as emerging responses in tackling them. The county lines pilot project began in September 2017 with the aim of testing out a range of interventions to support vulnerable children involved in county lines running between London and Kent so that they could exit the activity. Child focused interventions included one-to-one casework (Kent OT) and phone based support (SafeCall). A further element of the project involved professional training of people with 'lived experience' to create a team of Peer Advisor volunteers who, once their training is complete, will be able to support the casework with affected children. By the end of March 2018: § 38 children and their families in two areas of Kent and three London boroughs have been provided with one-to-one, in person casework support, with 30 remaining on the caseload § 7 children/young people and 20 family members have been supported through SafeCall in-depth phone services § 9 people with lived experience of gangs/county lines/drugs are training as Peer Advisors Overall, the pilot project has provided a range of very effective support for children involved in county lines activities, as well as their families and a range of professionals working with them. Details: London: St. Giles Trust, 2018. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 3, 2018 at: https://www.stgilestrust.org.uk/reports-and-evaluations Year: 2018 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.stgilestrust.org.uk/reports-and-evaluations Shelf Number: 151749 Keywords: At-Risk Youth Casework Gangs Mentoring Missing Persons Peer AdvisorsVulnerable Youth Youth Gangs |