Programme Goals
- The Your Choice Programme aims to help young people focus on what matters to them and provide them with resources to achieve their goals.
- Together, we seek to fill a practice gap through Your Choice – by moving beyond understanding why a child may behave in a certain way to providing tools and techniques that practitioners can employ to help the child keep themselves safe.
- Through engagement in the London Young People Study (LYPS), we aim to contribute to the evidence-base and make the case for further investment in this field of work.
An ambitious evaluation – the London Young People Study
We have heard multiple anecdotal stories about the positive impact of the Your Choice programme from young people and their practitioners, such as this one:
Working with [my practitioner] really opened my eyes. I see now that who you surround yourself with, makes an image of who you are.
This ambitious programme is expected to influence national and international practice and the programme therefore requires a robust evaluation methodology to measure impact and outcomes of the approach. The chosen methodology is a Cluster Randomised Control Trial. The evaluation will continue until December 2024 with the full Efficacy report scheduled for August 2025.
The evaluation methodology is being monitored along the way to ensure the Randomised Control Trial (RCT) does not distort practice or deny access to services.
Read more about the evaluation of the Your Choice programme (the London Young People Study) by clicking this button
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Programme & Evaluation Milestones
October 2023
Your Choice Pilot Report Published
The Youth Endowment Fund (YEF) published the findings from the pilot trial of the London Young People Study.
August 2023
The Efficacy stage of the LYPS commenced
The full-scale Efficacy trial of the London Young People Study started on the 8 August and will run until December 2024. 30 of London’s boroughs are participating.
May 2023
YEF gives go-ahead for full-scale Efficacy
The London Young People’s Study Full Efficacy Trial received go-ahead from the Youth Endowment Fund.
April 2022 – March 2023
Your Choice Pilot trial
The YEF-funded evaluation of Your Choice started in April 2022 and lasted until March 2023. Over 300 young people participated in the Pilot.
December 2021 – March 2022
Home Office phase
The Home Office funded the first phase of the Your Choice programme.
December 2021
First training session held
The first Your Choice training session was held on December 6 2021.
Partners
With thanks to our first phase funders, the Home Office.
You can read more about our partners here.
Governance and funders
