Explains why a tool is necessary. Explains how to use the self assessment tool for NDC Partnerships to monitor their own progress, considering the kinds of pointers which could be used and ways in which these could be measured.

Covers:

NDC is a central government neighbourhood renewal programme. Youth crime problems have been identified in the majority of NDC partnerships and a wide variety of interventions introduced to tackle them. All these schemes have a common need to know whether they are achieving "success". This tool has therefore been designed to help measure "success".

Experience from the case study work on youth crime in the first year of the national evaluation was used to produce a list of data collection fields which might be relevant to measuring success in projects with targets in youth crime reduction. In year two the list was discussed with community safety managers and project leaders in three case study NDCs. In year three the data collection checklist was posted on the national evaluation website and emailed to a limited number of youth crime case study NDCs with an invitation to complete and/or comment.

Concludes that the tool is unvalidated, and that projects should complete it in the way that they find helpful to them.

NDC National Evaluation, CRESR, Sheffield Hallam University
Professor Paul Lawless (Director), tel. +44 (0)114 225 3529

01/11/2004

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Adamson, Sue

research

Urban Policy > Security & crime prevention > Anti-crime policy

Youth crime