Researcher Anton Roberts of the Policy Evaluation and Researcher Unit (PERU) is proud to release this report in collaboration with Lifeshare. This detailed piece of work explores the role of complex need in frontline homelessness services - attempting to define the challenges faced, provide examples of best practice, and a host of recommendations for improved ways of working. This detailed service guide has been informed by Anton's co-productive doctoral research, which took place over a two-year period across provisions here in Manchester. The resource also draws heavily on the lived experience of the organisations staff, volunteers and service users. This resource would be of great use to any frontline workers/volunteers in the sector, as well as any frontline provision that works with vulnerable/marginalised groups. It is a reflection of the (at times) stark difficulties faced by third sector organisations, but also provides a series of realistic and practical solutions.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

The Health Foundation REAL Centre is working with the University of Liverpool to build a dynamic microsimulation model of non-communicable diseases to allow analysis of future demand for healthcare.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

This project leverages features associated with the geomasking algorithm to estimate the effect of public crime statistics on house prices.

PERU 2021-2022 Impact Report

The scheme to defer the prosecution of low-level offenders has highlighted key benefits, including avoiding criminalisation and associated negative social impact, but has demonstrated challenges, such as addressing racial disparities.

This article examines the relationship between maternal exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), intimate partner violence (IPV), and two aspects of maternal mental well-being—stress and depressive symptoms in the context of Tirana, Albania.

This briefing is based on descriptive findings from an ADR UK (Administrative Data Research UK) Research Fellowship project

The purpose of this article is to determine the predictors of positive and negative parenting practices among mothers of two-to-three-year-old children in Tirana, Albania.

This article presents novel findings from interviews with 17 girls and young women and eight Youth Offending Team (YOT) staff, highlighting how being in care can affect offending behaviour and how YOTs may provide support to care-experienced girls who have been inadequately supported elsewhere.

This paper explores how criminalisation, care experience and motherhood may intersect to produce multi-faceted structural disadvantage within both systems of care and punishment.

Publication aims to raise awareness about the platform-based gig economy

This article explores the challenges and possibilities of using local agreements to divert children in care and care leavers away from formal justice systems contact.

We have been working with TASO to develop guidance on evaluation with small cohorts and it is now available on their website. TASO’s focus is widening participation and improving student outcomes in higher education but the guidance can be applied to many areas of social policy evaluation.

Using data from the Social Finance UK Database and focusing on SIBs in the US and UK, Olson et al. evaluate whether the SIB approach aligns with the theoretical predictions of social innovation.

Chris O’Leary looks afresh at the reasons for prosocial work choices in the first substantive critique of Public Service Motivation (PSM).

Co-creation and strength-based working as characteristics of social innovation bonds.

The authors report and analyse innovative co-creative initiatives involving marginalized and stigmatized groups (prisoners, urban racialized minorities, rural poor populations including Roma).

This book review by Sue Baines provides an insight into the value that Oosterlynck, Novy and Kazepov's book brings to the field of social innovation.

This book draws upon perspectives from across the globe, employing an interdisciplinary life course approach.

This paper makes a novel contribution by turning an ‘asset’ lens onto social and technical innovation in the context of the small-scale generation of renewable energy.

As part of a large pan-European project on co-creating public services we supported the design of a programme in England that attempted to operationalise research on desistance, through a model of co-created, strengths-based working. We then evaluated its implementation and impact.

Cultural biases and information for co-production

This paper draws together key findings from CoSIE with a particular focus on what these imply for new policy and practice in public services in the form of a discussion paper aimed at European, national and regional policy-makers.

Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.

Using data from the Social Finance UK Database and focusing on SIBs in the US and UK, Olson et al. evaluate whether the SIB approach aligns with the theoretical predictions of social innovation.

Rapid Evidence Assessment finds that vocational training and employment programmes were associated with 9 percent fewer programme participants reoffending, when compared with nonparticipants. Studies conducted in the UK were associated with 6 percent fewer programme participants reoffending.

Protocol for a two-arm parallel cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

A blog for the H2020 project CoSIE, reflecting on ways to navigate tensions between differing views on good information and reliable evidence.

Emerging debates and questions around cycling

Migrant communities faced stark social and educational inequalities in the UK even before the lockdown and it is anticipated that the pandemic will have only exacerbated these.

How Social Impact Bonds can facilitate a move to strengths-based service delivery and help drive innovation in public service delivery

Homelessness and welfare reform in England

Response to Department for Work and Pensions call for evidence and good practice on in-work progression.

This paper argues for “the potential for needs assessment and sentence planning to transcend their core justice functions and set the tone for effective engagement between probation supervisee and supervisor.”

Publication Date: Monday 02 November 2020

Emerging lessons and new questions from CoSIE

Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.

Educational preventing violent extremism (EPVE) programs have had (to date) little if any theoretical underpinning.

This paper highlights how qualitative research can enhance causal explanation in impact evaluations and provide additional causal leverage to findings from randomised experiments.

This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing successes, challenges and setbacks of Social Investment policies and services from ten European countries.

A rapid evidence summary

This chapter argues that local authorities can and should use their purchasing power strategically to address the social determinants of health that affect their local area.

Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.

EVALUATING THE ROLE OF THE KOESTLER AWARDS IN IMPROVING PRISONS AND PRISONERS

A report, co-authored by researchers from the Fraser of Allander Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University and IPPR Scotland, looks at the costs and benefits of implementing a basic income in Scotland and the channels through which it may impact upon the economy.

Evaluation is the application of research methods in order to make judgments about policies, programs, or interventions with the aim of either determining or improving their effectiveness, and/or informing decisions about their future.

Governments in some of the world’s richest nations appear to be caught in a double challenge of declining social budgets even as social needs are increasing.

This report explores the concept of innovation and its application to the delivery of probation services.

This chapter explores how to put communities back into community payback through the use of co-operatives.

Probation provision is complex, with a range of providers dealing with diverse service users and performing differing functions.

An assessment tool for adult offenders that operationalises risk needs responsivity and desistance principles

Why we need EuroCohort, GGP and SHARE in Europe

Procurement and commissioning in the non-profit sector

A Cluster Randomised Controlled Trial

A Handbook to Connect Research with Policy Making

Drawing together ideas about co-creation, social innovation, social investment and individual and collective values that underpin the CoSIE project.

This programme of work aims to improve understanding of ‘best’ practice in functional skills education in England and Wales.

Technical Report and Executive Summary

Rapid Evidence Assessment finds a growing body of evidence that lower probation caseloads have a positive impact in terms of reducing reoffending in the USA.

EEF guidance report is designed to support senior leaders and teachers to make better-informed decisions based on the best available evidence we currently have.

Examining the effectiveness of remote supervision approaches and emerging new technologies to manage probation service users and assist with their desistance from further offending.

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood.

We review the state of evaluation within outcome-based commissioning in the United Kingdom.

A look at how social impact bonds differ between projects and geographies, and how those differences impact practical implementation.

This paper describes a cluster randomised controlled trial designed to test the efficacy of Eedi, a formative question setting and diagnostic digital platform, on attainment in mathematics at GCSE as well as its impact on teacher workload.

Homelessness has a devastating effect on those who experience it and is costly to the public purse.

There is a lack of empirical research around sub‐national Social Investment programs, and a lack of connectivity with social innovation.

The evaluation has found that the WSA provides a good example of a gendered approach to supporting women in contact with the criminal justice system or at risk of offending and has been successful in responding to a number of its key aims.

A Rapid Evidence Assessment

This chapter presents an analysis of the evaluation market in England.

This briefing analyses Brexit’s potential impact on families in poverty, along with other forces that could help or hinder efforts to solve UK poverty.

This paper articulates the first ‘general theory’ of prison education, offering a new insight into the relevance of desistance theory and understanding of prison sociology to the lives of men engaged in education whilst in prison.

This volume presents key findings from the EU funded Measuring Youth Well-being (MYWeB) project which assessed the feasibility of a European Longitudinal Study for Children and Young People (ELSCYP).

This Rapid Evidence Assessment sought to arrive at an updated synthesis of the co-creation and co-production evidence base in the United Kingdom.

Outcome-based payment systems in the UK and US

The Family SKILLS programme for reception year students from families in which English is an additional language

The T2A Pathway initiative, 6 projects led by charities in partnership with statutory services, delivered services to 16-25 year olds across sites in England between 2014-2017.

Various approaches to personalisation are well-established in the UK social care sector and are now starting to ‘travel’ to other sectors.

Grandmentors Review: Final Report

From Survey to Ethnography - presents findings from a major cross-European research project mapping the civic and political engagement of young Europeans in the context of both shared and diverse political heritages.

Eurosceptic Youth: Interest, Trust and Ideology

The Role of Ancient Philosophers in the Self-Understanding of Desisting Prisoners

Impact Study on Early Education Use and Child Outcomes up to Age Three

In this report, published by the Intergenerational Foundation, Kevin argues that the benefits of a young person getting a higher education qualification in England accrue in the ratio 58% to the nation and 42% to the graduate.

Payment by results and justice devolution in the probation sector

A Rapid Evidence Assessment of the effectiveness of prison education in reducing recidivism and increasing employment

In Research Ethics in Criminology: Dilemmas, Issues and Solutions (Edited by Cowburn, Gelsthorpe and Wahidin)

This article reports on the early stages of a project to develop a model of offender rehabilitation that operationalises the concept of desistance.

This book covers all the essentials of evaluation:

Professor Stephen Morris and colleagues at NatCen Social Research and Institute of Education publish a research protocol for the Family SKILLS cluster randomized controlled trial

When the Coalition government’s ‘rehabilitation revolution’ was first articulated, innovation was an important theme, encompassing innovation by frontline staff, by organisations working within a mixed economy and even social entrepreneurs.

A fairly robust body of evidence suggests that hotspots policing is an effective crime prevention strategy.

The criminal justice system (CJS) in England and Wales went through extensive reform under the Coalition Government of 2010-2015.

In Global Perspectives on Strategic International Partnerships: A Guide to Building Sustainable Academic Linkages

With reference to a case study which illustrates the existence of segmented markets and international price discrimination, this paper develops a theoretical model of comparative advantage in which domestic prices may be sticky.

Although women remain a minority group in the criminal justice system (CJS), there is increasing recognition amongst policy makers of the importance of understanding the needs of female offenders in order to better target resources and provide support that is responsive to these needs.

Slides from Clinks 'Just and Affordable Rehabilitation' Conference, London, 1st December 2015

Youth, Politics and Activism in Contemporary Europe

There has been a growing interest among academics, policy makers and practitioners in the subjective well-being of children and young people (CYP).

The UK elections take place on the 7th May.

The essays presented in this volume examine knowledge mobilisation and its relation to research impact and engagement.

Warmer, drier summer weather brought by global climate change should encourage use of outdoor leisure facilities.

Kevin Albertson discusses the difficulty of aligning private incentives with the public good

The step-by-step guide to running Great Britain

The UK government has called for a rehabilitation revolution in England and Wales and put its faith in market testing.

This report, produced in a collaboration between the CIPD and John Lewis Partnership, aims to uncover the experiences of employees on the lowest rates of pay and understand the contributing factors for an individual becoming ‘stuck’ on low pay.

This paper explores the implications for public policy from the new Office of National Statistics (ONS) data source on wealth distribution in Britain, and what we know about future trends in savings, longevity, property prices and inheritance.

Economic ideas and concepts have always influenced thinking about crime and criminal justice. Increasingly, however, criminologists, policy-makers and practitioners who draw on, or seek to critique, economic ideas take a rather narrow view of economics based on the prevailing orthodoxy: neo-liberalism. Neo-liberalism, vulgarly conceived, assumes society is comprised of self-serving, instrumentally rational actors.

In this briefing we highlight the importance of social innovation in the criminal justice system and ask whether reforms to the criminal justice system taking place as part of the Transforming Rehabilitation policy shift will encourage or deter social innovation in the future.

The criminal justice sector has never achieved rates of re-offending with which the public and policy makers are satisfied.

In the UK, national and local governments are struggling to cope with the economic crisis which ensued in 2008.

The ‘London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ (LRRP) was an innovative Payment by Results (PbR) programme that aimed to reduce youth reoffending in London.

The ‘London Reducing Reoffending Programme’ (LRRP) was an innovative Payment by Results (PbR) programme that aimed to reduce youth reoffending in London.

Social innovation discourses see in social challenges opportunities to make societies more sustainable and cohesive through inclusive practices, coproduction and pro-active grassroots initiatives.

This summary presents the main findings from a range of research, conducted by Sheffield Hallam University and the Greater Manchester Probation Trust, exploring the learning from the Intensive Alternatives to Custody (IAC) pilots.

In Crime and Punishment in America, Currie notes that, short of major wars, mass imprisonment has been the most thoroughly implemented USA government social programme of recent times.

Rising prison numbers and high rates of re-offending illustrate the need for criminal justice reform.

Using Isotopic Fractionation to Link Precursor to Product in the Synthesis of (±)-Mephedrone: A New Tool for Combating "Legal High" Drugs

Synthesis, full chemical characterisation and development of validated methods for the quantification of (±)-4'-methylmethcathinone (mephedrone): a new "legal high”

Recent years have seen high levels of public spending on criminal justice but to relatively little effect

The ‘confidence agenda’ poses important new challenges for Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnerships in general and the police in particular.

This paper draws primarily on research undertaken in the north of England.

Crime and Economics provides the first comprehensive and accessible text to address the economics of crime within the study of crime and criminology.

Purpose – This paper seeks to report on a project to estimate the costs and benefits of implementing an Alcohol Treatment Requirement (ATR) in Stockport.

This report sets out the findings of the process evaluation of Community Legal Advice Centres and Networks commissioned by the Legal Services Research Centre (LSRC).

Co-creation and strength-based working as characteristics of social innovation bonds.