1. Experiences of the Youth Inclusion Programme Neighbourhood Renewal and Youth Crime 20 th March 2006

2. A Comprehensive Evaluation Description: “What the hell is going on out there?” Process: ‘Looks Like A YIP, Sounds Like a Yip. Is it a YIP?’ Performance Indicators: ‘Navigation tools for the projects’ Impact: ‘Did it work?’

3. Overview of Methods Youth Inclusion Management Information System (YIPMIS) Quarterly returns Feedback reports to projects Programme Level Data Surveys of 72 projects Focused Fieldwork in 20 YIPs Pen Portraits of projects and neighbourhoods Intervention Typologies Progress of young people Interviews with stakeholders and young people

4. Four Dimensions of YIP 1. The Areas and Projects 2. Identification Procedures 3. Engagement and Assessment 4. Interventions

5. Descriptive: The Neighbourhood Deprivation Indices; crime, population, area. The projects Staffing and management structures Identification, Engagement and Assessment Formal/informal tools and processes Interventions What, why, when and for whom?

6. Process ID 50 Process How often, which agencies, how many young people Engagement Outreach, letter, home visits Assessment Formal tools/informal tools Intervention Planning To address risk factors

7. Performance Indicators (i) Ensure that 75% of the core group are engaged; And those engaged receive at least 5 hours of interventions per week. Reduce arrest rates by some 70%. Ensure 90% of those engaged are in ‘suitable’ ETE.

8. Performance Indicators (ii) Quarterly Feedback of PIs Individual Project Reports Discussed with YJB and National Supporters Remedial Action Suggested Quarterly Programme Level Bulletin

9. Impact RDS-NOMS Standards for Impact Studies Randomised Control Trials ??? Matched Comparison Groups Heckman Two Stage Regression Analysis

10. Conclusion Evaluation has provided: Definitive Report on YIP Contributed to local performance improvement Contributed to revision of management guidance Overall lessons for evaluation of community based initiatives?