Evaluations

Summer Arts Colleges 2011: Final Outcomes Report

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 ... read on →

Author Maree Adams (Unitas)

Published March 2012

Artform Multi-Arts

Organisation Arts Council England

Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

Sample size: 412

Summer Arts College: Outcomes Report 2007-11

This outcomes report and accompanying digest is part of a series of publications summarising the outcomes of the four years of Summer Arts Colleges run between 2007-11. The evaluation has shown that the programme consistently meets its objectives of reducing offending, increasing educational engagement, improving basic skills,achieving a qualification and ... read on →

Authors Greg Brooks, Roger Tarling (Unitas)

Published 2011

Artform Multi-Arts

Organisation Arts Council England

Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders, Male and Female Young Offenders

Summer Arts Colleges 2008: Outcomes Report

An independent report on the 2008 Summer Arts Colleges intitiative focusing on reducing re-offending, increasing educational engagement, improving literacy and numeracy skills and ETE progression routes. read on →

Author Maree Adams (Unitas)

Published

Artform Multi-Arts

Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

Sample size: 277

Summer Arts Colleges: Evaluation Report 2007

An independent report on the 2007 Summer Arts Colleges intitiative focusing on reducing re-offeding, increasing educational engagement, improving literacy and numeracy skills and ETE progression routes. The findings show positive impacts for the young people in each of the key outcome areas of engagement in ETE, offending behaviour and engagement ... read on →

Published November 2008

Artform Multi-Arts

Participant type Male and Female Juvenile Offenders

Sample size: 156

Developments in the HM Prison Service and Safe Ground Family Man programme, and the Safe Ground Network during 2007-8: An independent review

The purpose of this evaulation was to examine the developments Safe Ground had made to one of its prison interventions, Family Man, and to the Safe Ground network during the period 2007-08 following recommendations made in previous reviews. It utilised semi structured qualitative face to face interviews, telephone interviews and questionnaires ... read on →

Authors Gwyneth Boswell, Fiona Poland

Published October 2008

Artform Drama

Organisation Safe Ground   Project venues Belmarsh, Wandsworth

Participant type Male and Female Adult Families of offenders, Male Adult Offenders, Male and Female Adult Staff

Sample size: 258

FM and FI and Skills for Life

This evaluation commissioned by the OLSU, examined how far the 'Family Man' and 'Fathers Inside' programmes contributed towards the ‘Skills for Life Strategy’. It found that both programmes support the strategy by focusing on speaking, listening and responding skills and includes details of the percentages of FM & FI course ... read on →

Author Sue Oakley (Offenders Learning and Support Unit, Department for Education and Skills)

Published April 2005

Artforms Drama, Multi-Arts

Organisation Safe Ground

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