| Activity Agreement Pilots: Follow-Up Survey of 2007-2008 Participants |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Report presenting findings from the follow-up survey of young people who took part in the first impact survey for the evaluation of the Activity Agreement (AA) Pilots. |
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| Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey 2009 |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Survey examining the key characteristics of childcare and early years provision and its workforce. |
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| Disabled Children's Access to Childcare |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| The Disabled Children‟s Access to Childcare (DCATCH) pilot is the specific Aiming High for Disabled Children initiative dedicated to developing childcare provision for this group of children and their families. |
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| Extended Services Evaluation: End of Year One Report |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Extended services in schools are one of the key delivery mechanisms of the Every Child Matters Agenda and the Children's Plan. |
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| Evaluation of Enterprise Education in England |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Research commissioned in order to improve the understanding of the range and effectiveness of Enterprise Education activities provided within schools, particularly at Key Stage 4. |
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| Diploma Costs and Funding at Key Stage 4 |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Research commissioned by the DCSF intended to assist it in coming to a view on the funding requirement for Diplomas in 2010-11. |
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| Month of Birth and Education |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| A compendium of the evidence on the month of birth effect in education from the Schools Analysis and Research Division of the then DCSF. |
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| Characteristics of bullying victims in schools |
| Thursday, 29 July 2010 |
| Study exploring the characteristics of bullying victims aged 14-16 in 2004-06, using data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England. |
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| Local Authority Approaches to the School Admissions Process |
| Friday, 16 July 2010 |
| An investigation commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) into the various approaches of LAs to the admissions process, with the aim of establishing an overview of the challenges, barriers and facilitating factors connected to the different approaches used. |
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| Implementing outcomes based accountability in children's services |
| Friday, 16 July 2010 |
| Research commissioned from the NFER by Local Government Association Analysis and Research (LGAAR), on behalf of Local Government Improvement and Development, to identify the impact of the Outcomes Based Accountability (OBA) approach on LA practice in Children's Services. |
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| Positivity in practice |
| Monday, 28 June 2010 |
| Professionals contributing to an NFER-funded research project corroborate a finding of previous research and government policy that there is a mismatch between perceptions and reality about the scale of young people's involvement in crime and anti-social behaviour.
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| UK Resilience programme evaluation: Second interim report |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| Report presenting interim findings from the UK Resilience Programme evaluation, commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families. |
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| Aiming High for Young People: Evaluation Feasibility Study Final report |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| DFE (then DCSF) commissioned NatCen and Bryson Purdon Social Research (BPSR), in collaboration with the National Youth Agency (NYA) and the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS), to carry out a feasibility study to produce a set of recommendations for an evaluation of the Aiming High for Young People (AHYP) strategy. |
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| Barriers to Participation in Education and Training |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| Study exploring the relative impacts of the barriers and constraints young people currently face when deciding what to do at the end of their compulsory schooling in year 11. |
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| Tellus4 Evaluation |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| An evaluation undertaken by Word of Mouth as a small-scale, targeted piece of work aimed at providing insight into the delivery of the survey. |
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| Evaluation of the Entry to Learning pilots |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| Research commissioned by the DCSF which undertook a process evaluation of the four pilot entry to learning (E2L) projects delivered in Birmingham, Brighton and Hove, Lancashire and Sandwell. |
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| Youth Taskforce study of perceptions in Youth Crime Action Plan areas |
| Thursday, 24 June 2010 |
| Research exploring the views of residents within Youth Crime Action Plan (YCAP) areas to understand more about perceptions regarding young people and crime, anti-social behaviour and alcohol use/misuse and efforts to tackle these problems. |
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| Intergenerational practice: outcomes and effectiveness |
| Monday, 21 June 2010 |
| The National Foundation for Educational Research, with the National Youth Agency and National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, was commissioned by the Local Government Association to examine what works in intergenerational practice. |
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| Local authorities' experiences of improving parental confidence in the SEN process |
| Monday, 21 June 2010 |
| Research commissioned by the LGA to provide insights into the approach and practice of local authorities' work with parents of children with SEN. |
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| The Impact of the Baby Peter Case on Applications for Care Orders |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 |
| Report commissioned by the Local Government Association (LGA) to provide the local authority perspective on the impact of the Baby Peter case. |
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| Children and young people's views on web 2.0 technologies |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 |
| An LGA Research report, commissioned from the NFER, aimed at providing useful information for local authority personnel considering using web 2.0 tools and for policy personnel considering future forms of communication within children's services fields.
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| An analysis of youth offending teams' inspection reports |
| Monday, 14 June 2010 |
| Study examining evidence from 60 inspection reports, alongside Annual Performance Assessments of Services for Children and Young People, and National Performance Indicator data focusing on youth offending issues.
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| Transition through detention and custody |
| Thursday, 27 May 2010 |
| This survey evaluated the quality of the support while children and young people were detained in secure accommodation or in custody, moving through the youth justice system or serving their sentence in the community |
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| Issues in Earlier Intervention: Identifying and Supporting Children with Additional Needs |
| Thursday, 25 March 2010 |
| A review and scoping study commissioned by the Department for Children, Schools and Families on earlier intervention. |
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