Social Justice evaluation reports published
28th May 2010
The PHF Social Justice programme has published evaluation reports that look at the impact and learning from the work of two early Special Initiatives.
'Leading Questions - Learning from the Reading and Libraries Challenge Fund', brings together learning from three funding streams that made up the Reading and LIbraries Challenge Fund, Right to Read provided funds for work involving looked-after children and young people in care; Free with Words focused on prisoners and young offenders; and Libraries Connect looked at ways of helping refugees, asylum-seekers and other marginalised groups to access reading.
Sixty grants were made over several years, and the evaluation, written by Helen Carpenter, draws a number of lessons from this large body of work that will be of use to a range of organisations and policy-makers working in these fields.
'Including Youth - Learning from the Refugee and Asylum-Seeker Fund' reports on work supporting organisations helping young people to inegrate into British society. It tracks grants, mostly of two to three years, made beiween 2003 and 2007 to projects run by refugee-led community organisations (RCOs) and other charitable, voluntary and second-tier organisations.
The reports are available for download below, and more information on each can be found in the Social Justice pages within the PHF website.
Links:
'Leading Questions' (pdf)
'Including Youth' (pdf)
PHF Social Justice programme