The two-year Re-Ach project, funded by the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF), was beset by problems. The project was supposed to reduce teen pregnancies and the number of young people not in education, employment and training in Barking and Dagenham, Hillingdon and Leicester.
But the two-year scheme, which was led by charities, Youth at Risk and Hanover Foundations, did neither.
The report found that the pilot failed to engage the target group of hard-to-reach young people, and instead focused on young people who were in education.
York Consulting, which conducted the evaluation on behalf of the DCSF, said in its report that "participants illustrated minimal evidence of disaffection and disengagement. Consequently, the pilot was unable to make a significant contribution to two of the three outcomes that were identified."
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