The summer colleges will be run in partnership with the Youth Justice Board at 18 locations around the country, each working with 10 young people aged 15 to 18. They are aimed at those who may have recently left custody or who are on intensive supervision and surveillance programmes.
The courses, which will be run at venues such as universities, youth centres and further education colleges, will use the arts to help improve the young people's literacy and numeracy skills. Attendees will also be able to work towards the Arts Award qualification.
The summer colleges were piloted in seven locations last summer. An evaluation of the pilot showed that while 70 per cent of the 76 young people who attended the courses had "not been engaged in education, training or employment" for the three months preceding attendance at the summer colleges, this dropped to 30 per cent following completion.
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