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Lack of evidence-based interventions risks leaving young people behind
Report findings launched yesterday, one year into the Big Lottery Fund’s ground-breaking Realising Ambition programme, show that a lack of evidence-based programmes, challenges in recruiting sufficiently qualified or experienced staff and internal bureaucracy mean successful early intervention programmes aimed at helping vulnerable children are not being replicated successfully.
However whilst the replication of promising interventions is hard, the majority of projects supported by the Realising Ambition are succeeding in replicating to new areas.
With £25 million funding from the Big Lottery Fund - the largest investment of its kind - Catch22, the Social Research Unit at Dartington, The Young Foundation and Substance are supporting 25 varied projects across the UK through the Realising Ambition programme. Working directly with thousands of 8-14 year olds, each project is being supported for up to five years to refine their interventions, increase capacity and build evidence of their impact, allowing these projects to then be replicated across different parts of the UK.
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