We are evaluating the feasibility and supporting the adaptation of Becoming A Man (BAM), a two-year, group-based intervention delivered in schools with adolescent boys. Developed in Chicago and brought to London for the first time, BAM tries to improve education outcomes and reduce criminal activity by promoting positive youth development.  

We are working in partnership to undertake a three-year system change  initiative to promote young people’s emotional wellbeing and to address emotional coercive control in adolescent relationships.  It forms part of the National Lottery Community Fund’s Early Action System Change Fund tackling the root causes of inequality.

The Family Nurse Partnership is adapting its home visiting parenting programme to enable their highly trained Family Nurses to deliver a more personalised programme to their clients, who are first time young mothers. FNP site have also designed some changes to the clinical content that  they  deliver that is also being tested.

Using system dynamics we are helping local authorities to understand system behaviours operating within their children’s social care services, to help improve policy, process,  and practice and  ultimately  to keep more children safely at home with their families.

We are working in collaboration with Barnardo’s and local authorities in Plymouth and Brent to support more care-experienced young people to be in employment, education or training by the age of 19-21.

Dartington  Service Design Lab are the lead partners in the #iwill Fund Learning Hub.  We’re working with Match Funders, delivery organisations and evaluators to maximise learning and develop knowledge about how to fund, deliver, and sustain high-quality youth social action that can benefit young people and their communities.

Dartington Service Design Lab are partnering with Collaborate to build and operationalise a strategy for the Early Years with the local authorities in Peterborough and Cambridgeshire. We are bringing local data, research evidence and professionals and service user views together to create a solution that responds pragmatically to local need.

A project aimed at improving a child mentoring service  using rapid cycle design and testing. We have partnered with Chance UK to  improve the design, implementation  and continuous monitoring of  the My  Future project:  a 9-month child mentoring service delivered to  50 children in Camden and Southwark, London.

We are  currently  working with Southend  A  Better Start and  Public Health at Southend Borough Council to map the services  currently  available to families with children from conception to age 19.  This is to understand the current service landscape in Southend and aid future system reform.

We are working in partnership with Renfrewshire Children’s Social Care and Snook to transform the way young people’s experiences are heard and acted upon within the care system. Key to the project is the co-design of a feedback tool that can be mapped against a new young person-centred quality assurance framework.

The ChildrenCount Wellbeing surveys have been designed to capture data from children, young people and parents about a range of Key Developmental Outcomes and Risk Factors as they current experience them. Data has been collected from across England and Scotland to help inform strategy in local authorities.

We have partnered with the Ariel Trust for almost 7 years in various forms. This latest work sought to standardise data collection from children participating in the  SafeSkills  Child Sexual Exploitation education programme so that Ariel could monitor and evaluate the delivery, and possible effect, of the programme internally