Evaluation Title

Summer Arts Colleges 2011: Final Outcomes Report

Type of evaluation

Data type Qualitative and Quantitative

Evaluation Focus Engagement, Impact of programme, Literacy and numeracy, Progression Routes, Reducing offending

Key indicators Attendance, Completion rates, Engagement, Literacy skills, Progression Routes, Reducing offending

Project outputs Arts Award, Structured workshop programme

Methodologies Asset analysis, Attendance registers, Data analysis, Pre and post programme measures, Tracking forms

Summary of evaluation

An independent evaluation of the fifth consecutive year of the Summer Arts College programme (2011)  has shown that the programme continued to meet its objectives of reducing offending, increasing educational engagement and improving basic skills through the arts for young people at risk of (re-)offending.

Comparisons across the five years of the programme (from 2007 to 2011) have been possible and data on the young people was provided directly by YOTs in an anonymised format. The data collected included profile data (such as information from ASSET) and details of the young people’s education, training and employment provision, offending and sentencing – for 13 weeks before, during and 13 weeks after the programme.

Project description

Summer Arts Colleges are a major initiative of the strategic partnership between the Youth Justice Board and Arts Council England, and in 2011 Youth Musicprovided additional financial support for the delivery of Summer Arts Colleges.
The Summer Arts College is an intensive, full-time programme offered over the summer holiday period, intended for high-risk young people, particularly those on Intensive Supervision and Surveillance (ISS) programmes and recently released from custody.
 
The young people attending the programme were aged between 12 and 19 years, with the vast majority aged 15 to 17 years and an average age of 16.5 years.


Key Quote

A total of 412 young people participated in the Summer Arts Colleges in 2011, across 45 programmes in England and Wales. This was the largest cohort since the programme began, and brought the total number of young people participating in the last five years to over 1500. In 2011 the completion rate reached 85 per cent, higher than in previous years. Young people who completed the programme attended 82 per cent of the programme hours offered to them.


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