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Substance are pleased to announce the publication of this report which presents learning from year one of the DCSF Information and Signposting Project. The project has worked with 20 local authorities to help them meet the statutory duty to collect, manage and publish information on positive activities for young people....
Following three successful national events run by Arts Council England and Museums Libraries and Archives which looked at the ways arts and culture deliver positive activities for children and young people, the Arts Council has collated a small number of case studies which represent the essence of the three events and...
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This report outlines a Literature and Methodological Review undertaken as part of this research project. The full report will be published in early 2010.
This summarises the first phase of the project and outlines approaches being taken in the case study work.
This report reveals that the activity-based social inclusion programme, Positive Futures, is getting young people back on track and back to work in some of the country’s most disadvantaged communities.
The report, ‘Working for us’, reviews the progress of the programme over the last year. The findings...
In commissioning this research EA Sports were prompted by a desire to understand where the lust for football comes from, to gain a fuller picture of the passion for the game and to facilitate a better appreciation of the extent to which football has come to pervade English society, in ways which extend far beyond the...
From April 2004, a research team led by Professor Tim Crabbe was invited to conduct a two year programme of detailed qualitative research into Positive Futures, a national sports and activity based social inclusion programme, funded by the Home Office Crime and Drug Strategy Directorate.
The research itself focused on six...
The Football and its Communities research, was carried out whilst the authors were based at the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture, Manchester Metropolitan University and Sheffield Hallam University between 2002 and 2005.
It outlines a 'new vision and understanding' for how the football world can engage with...
A report by Durham University and the Weston Spirit, researched and written by Jean Spence, Carol Devanney and Kylie Noonan.
The report is the culmination of a two-year research programme which aimed to analyse the informal and unstructured processes of youth work practice, as well as its more easily defined features, in...