Research published by Mori last week shows that 91 per cent of the 18,000 young people targeted through the sports-based scheme have "meaningful engagement" and attend most sessions.
Tim Crabbe, research policy director at Positive Futures, said the key aims for the crime-diversion programme were to engage and maintain engagement with young people. "There is a tendency for people to look for immediate impacts," he said. "Positive Futures is attempting to make a step away from that."
About 14,000 of the young people involved in projects are male. "Sport has traditionally been an arena more attractive to young men than to young women," said Crabbe. "That is something Positive Futures has to grapple with."
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