Reports and research

Informing Investment in Youth Work: Measuring value and strengthening the evidence base

30 June 2011 | Authors: Bethia McNeil, Neil Reeder,

We believe that managing the transition between youth and adulthood better is vitally important in improving outcomes for young people. However there is a lack of evidence about what works in this area. Further, such evidence as exists is not

Connect: Patients and the Power of Data

1 March 2011 | Authors: John Loder, Sylvia Wyatt,

Information is the lifeblood of high quality healthcare. There have been huge technological advances about how it can be used and by whom, which have been under utilised by the NHS. It is now possible to give people control over

Rough Nights: The Growing Dangers of Working at Night

1 March 2011 | Authors: Will Norman,

This report explores the lives of those people who work at night: the men and women who keep our hospitals open, clean our offices, allow us to cancel lost credit cards, serve us drinks in a club or drive us

Social Impact Bonds in Health

1 October 2010 | Authors: John Loder,

Social Impact Bonds are a potentially very powerful instrument for creating change and improvement. This short paper describes the basic structure of social impact bonds, why they might be useful for the public sector, and some of the issues that

Innovations in Health: Approaches from the Regional Innovation Funds

1 October 2010 | Authors: Geoff Mulgan, John Loder, Simon Tucker,

The NHS has already recognised that alternative approaches and solutions are therefore necessary – radically different and innovative ways of identifying, creating and scaling solutions, delivering services and involving patients and users are needed. This paper sets out the case

The State of Happiness

1 February 2010 | Authors: Anna Shandro, Geoff Mulgan, Dr Marcia Brophy, Nina Mguni,

The State of Happiness brings together four years of groundbreaking work based on in-depth pilots – from teaching resilience to children in schools to promoting neighbourliness – with three councils in very different areas of the country: Manchester, Hertfordshire and

Going green and beating the blues

1 December 2009 | Authors:

All over the world communities are grappling with two different agendas: on the one hand how to make their areas environmentally sustainable; on the other how to promote the wellbeing of local residents. Sometimes these agendas reinforce each other. But

Sinking and Swimming: Understanding Britain’s Unmet Needs

1 December 2009 | Authors:

This is a study of who is sinking and who is swimming in Britain today. Based on new analysis of statistical data, case studies, surveys and hundreds of conversations with people across the country, the study shows where the most

Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown

1 May 2009 | Authors: Yvonne Roberts,

Grit: The skills for success and how they are grown argues that Britain’s schools need to prioritise grit and self-discipline. Drawing on evidence from around the world it shows that these contribute as much to success at work and in

Meet the parents: stories of teenage pregnancy and parenthood in Lewisham

1 March 2009 | Authors: Corinne Cordes, Vicki Sellick, Will Norman,

The Young Foundation was commissioned by the London Borough of Lewisham to look at how perceptions and expectations of young people in the borough impacted on teenage pregnancy. We carried out detailed ethnographic studies to capture the experiences of young

Mind and Matter: The importance of psychological needs for social policy

30 November 2008 | Authors:

This work was part of the Young Foundation’s Mapping Unmet and Emerging Needs programme. The programme brought together a coalition of more than a dozen independent foundations and funding bodies to develop new insights into how social needs in Britain

Life begins at 60: what kind of NHS after 2008?

28 October 2006 | Authors:

Can the NHS evolve into a national wellness service capable of maximising people’s health rather than just treating us when we get ill? That’s the question at the heart of a visionary document about the future of the NHS by