Crime Concern, which runs Positive Futures for the Home Office, published its strategy for the next two years of the programme - Be Part of Something - last week (YPN, 12-18 July, p7).
At the launch Vernon Coaker, Home Office minister for security, policing and community safety, said: "A new monitoring framework will evaluate Positive Futures against these outcomes."
A team at Sheffield Hallam University working with social research company Substance will carry out the evaluation. Tim Crabbe, who is leading the research at Sheffield, said: "The system is about trying to track the development of people, and finding ways to tell this story."
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