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1 results foundAuthor: Cooper, Karen Title: Keeping Young People Engaged: Improving education, training and employment opportunities for serious and persistent young offenders Summary: In 2002, the Youth Justice Board (YJB) secured funding from the Government spending review to establish the ‘Keeping Young People Engaged’ (KYPE) initiative. A partnership project led by the YJB and the Connexions Service, KYPE was intended to support the existing capabilities of youth offending teams (YOTs) to provide relevant education, training and employment (ETE) services for all young offenders, but particularly for individuals subject to Detention and Training Orders (DTOs) and those serving community sentences of Intensive Surveillance and Supervision Programmes (ISSPs). The YJB and Connexions established a joint target to ensure that at least 90% of young offenders would be in suitable ETE during and at the end of their sentence. The main objective of the project was to enhance the resources available to local partnerships so that performance improvements would be achieved in pursuit of the 90% target. In 2003, eight Connexions frontrunner areas were selected to receive KYPE funding. In the projects’ second year, a further five YOT cluster areas were allocated funding. In undertaking the evaluation, three key aims provided an overall focus and a framework within which to draw up research activities. These aims were: to determine the effectiveness of resource funded by the project in successfully placing young offenders in ETE; to assess key components, approaches and practices to help develop an understanding of ‘what works’; and to capture learning from the project in a way that would best develop the wider knowledge base on ETE and provide evidence for policy development. Details: London: Youth Justice Board, 2007. 206p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 23, 2012 at: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6703/1/Keeping_Young_People_Engaged_(Full_Report)-2.pdf Year: 2007 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/6703/1/Keeping_Young_People_Engaged_(Full_Report)-2.pdf Shelf Number: 126110 Keywords: Educational ProgramsEmployment ProgramsJuvenile Offenders (U.K.)Youth Services |