Realising Ambition International Conference on

Social Innovation

Tricia Hackett

The Young Foundation

17 June 2014

Łódź, Poland

5 Year

£25 million

Big Lottery Fund

Investment (UK) Prevention and Early

Intervention for

children aged 8-14

A Learning

Programme delivered

through community and

voluntary sector

organisations

supported by a

consortium.

Replicating

10 evidence-based interventions Building the evidence-base

for 15 innovative approaches

A programme of national

and international

significance

The consortium

Catch22

Programme management

Social Research Unit (SRU)

Intervention support and programme level evaluation

Substance

Data monitoring through Views

The Young Foundation

Replication and organisational health support

Seeking to achieve:

100,000+

Children and young people

avoid pathways into offending

25+ organisations

across the UK have better evidence of what works

Policy makers, commissioners, and funders can identify

and support replication of

evidence-based programmes

Seeking to enable:

Sustaining and scaling

interventions for

organisational growth

Testing replication

and assessing outcomes

Tightening of interventions

What we have achieved so far

• All 25 interventions are delivering on the ground

• 51,022 Young People Have Engaged

• UK wide coverage

• Learning about what it takes to replicate evidence-based interventions

is being captured, analysed and communicated

• Under-estimate the organisational challenges involved in replicating evidence-

based practice

• Adaption is sometimes required to facilitate successful replication in new

contexts and this needs to be balanced with fidelity to the original model

• Significant preparatory work is required - in creating partnership agreements

with third party deliverers, developing fidelity monitoring tools and incorporating

sustainability plans

Emerging Learning: