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Ofsted's most recent inspection of Werrington young offender institution (YOI) praised its strong youth work provision – delivered by Kinetic Youth – for the positive impact it had on vulnerable young people. Kinetic's work at the Stoke on Trent YOI also won the youth work award at the 2017 CYP Now Awards.
Gess Aird, director at Kinetic, says the organisation, which has been working at Werrington since 2013, has always been confident of its impact but deciding how to measure it took time to get right.
"Impact tends to focus on how many young people are engaged – which wasn't satisfactory for us," she explains. "We wanted to be able to say to the prison: this is the difference we make because of our intervention."
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