Reports and publications

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 11

8 February 2018 | Authors:

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our eleventh Programme Insight, the final

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 10 and Confidence Framework

5 July 2017 | Authors:

The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. In our tenth Programme Insight we give

Realising Ambition Programme Insights: Issue 1

2 June 2015 | Authors:

The Secret Life of Innovation: Replication The Realising Ambition consortium, of which The Young Foundation was a part, produced a series of 12 Programme Insights rather than writing a long evaluation report at the end of the five-year programme. By

Realising Ambition – Lessons on replication and evidenced based interventions

18 July 2013 | Authors:

Every year thousands of children and young people enter the criminal justice system for the first time. This has a major impact on their families and the communities to which they belong, but an even bigger impact on their own life chances. The Young

Ready for Work: The capabilities young people need to find and keep work – and the programmes proven to help develop these

30 September 2014 | Authors:

This report, produced by Impetus-PEF in partnership with the Young Foundation and the Social Research Unit at Dartington (SRU), seeks to provide practical answers to the question: how can we help young people be ready for work? We believe the

Quest for the ‘S’ in ESG

9 February 2023 | Authors: Helen Goulden OBE, Charlotte Healy,

How can businesses act in both environmentally and socially responsible ways? What are the trade-offs between sustainability and social outcomes? This report examines how FTSE 100 companies approach ESG.  

Putting Health into Place

28 September 2018 | Authors: Amanda Hill-Dixon,

This booklet introduces the forthcoming Putting Health into Place Publication which The Young Foundation is producing in partnership with NHS England and others. Inside we outline 10 key principles for creating healthy new places, by strengthening and empowering communities, and

Public services and civil society working together

1 December 2009 | Authors:

The report explores the evidence to suggest outcomes are improved when public services and civil society work hand in hand, and develops five new ways to do just that – from community entrepreneurs to asset sharing, new performance measures to

Productivity in UK public services – what went wrong? What could go right?

1 August 2011 | Authors: Neil Reeder,

Cuts to public spending have hit services hard; and more reductions are on the way. The worst can only be avoided by a step-change in public service productivity services. Much scope for improvement is there – but only if the

Positioning peer research in a policy context

23 November 2020 | Authors: Caroline Yang, Zoe Dibb,

Using urban and youth policy case studies, this report focuses on peer research and co-production through citizen engagement.

Positional Goods:  New inequalities and the importance of relative position

28 September 2006 | Authors:

The Young Foundation’s project on Positional Goods explored the emergence of new inequalities in modern Britain and the importance of relative position: Keeping up with the Jones’. The project’s aims were to understand modern trends in material consumption, celebrity lifestyles

Policy Brief: Social Innovation in Health and Social Care

6 December 2015 | Authors: Charlotte Heales, ,

This policy brief appraises the state of social innovation in Health and Social Care and looks at current and future challenges and opportunities in the policy field. This document is based on the Policy Field Report for Health and Social