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The Centre for Youth Impact is committed to working collaboratively to progress thinking and practice in impact measurement in youth work and provision for young people. Our vision is for all young people to have access to high quality programmes and services that improve their life chances.

We aim to work in collaboration with others to test, learn and build momentum behind the impact agenda, across organisations working with young people. You can read about our current projects here.

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Insight Paper from the Youth Investment Fund
We are pleased to announce that the first Insight Paper from the Youth Investment Fund (YIF) Learning Programme has now been published. The paper describes the shared evaluation framework that has been developed for the programme, with input from the 90 organisations that have received funding. It also sets out the rationale for using such shared approaches: to provide a consistent basis for learning, quality improvement and evaluation.
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Everybody counts or nobody counts: striving to get recruitment right
The more eagle-eyed amongst you may have noticed that we appear to have been doing a lot of recruitment recently. We’re not looking to expand the Centre to the size of a couple of 11-a-side football teams though; it’s just that we haven’t got it quite right yet... It’s unlikely that we’ll ever know the precise reasons why (always a frustration for a researcher!), but we’ve spent a fair bit of time reflecting as we prepare to go out to recruit again.
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