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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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Evaluating 'Make our Rights Reality' Programme
The Centre is delighted to announce that it will be working with Youth Access to evaluate the Make our Rights Reality (MORR) programme. The evaluation will focus on the most significant areas of learning for the practitioners involved in facilitating/delivering the MORR programme and the extent to which the public legal education (PLE) interventions delivered as part of the programme has met its aims for young people.
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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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